254 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Students who wish to complete the option in Aeronautical Engineering
in the senior year must take Aeron. 101 in the first semester of the junior
year. Those who take all of the courses listed in this option may substi-
tute non-professional electives for Shop 7, M.D. 12, S and G 105, S and @
124, and E.A. 106. Hyd. Engr. 1 may be deferred until the senior year.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSE

The four-year course in electrical engineering leads to the degree of
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Course, and is open to gradu-
ates of accredited high schools and to students entering by examination or
with proper credits from other schools and colleges.

The aim of the course is to produce industrious, clear-thinking young
men having a working acquaintance with the scientific and economic prin-
ciples which underlie all engineering practice and a vision of the pleasures
and possibilities of continuous growth in engineering service. While engi-
neering practice is kept in view throughout the instruction in the course,
this is not for the purpose of conveying a knowledge of the practical details
in any one of the many branches of the electrical engineering field. Rather
it is for the purpose of imparting an appreciation of engineering methods
of procedure.

The successful engineer who develops executive and administrative
ability in his technical work eventually assumes an administrative or execu-
tive position in which he deals with problems which involve, beside purely
technical features, the economic and sociological questions of a civilization
which is based so largely upon engineering achievements. To the solution
of these problems should be brought the judgment of years of experience
founded upon the broadest possible university training. With this in mind,
the course in Electrical Engineering has been so framed that a good pro-
portion of the studies are non-professional in nature, i. e., studies not
directly connected with the more technical phases of engineering. These
are pursued for the most part in the College of Letters and Science. Be-
cause of the wide latitude of choice permitted, students are urged to give
careful consideration, early in their course, to the planning of a worthwhile
group of these non-professional studies the election of which usually begins
in the second semester of the sophomore year.

It is further recommended that students who aim to lay the broadest
foundation for constructive leadership devote more than four years to their
college work, combining with their engineering studies a liberal selection of
studies outside the College of Engineering.

All classroom work in electrical theory is paralleled by work in the
well-equipped laboratories in which the students, working in pairs, acquire
a working knowledge of electrical instruments and machines by carrying
out tests which illustrate the engineering applications of the principles
studied in the class room. In all of the electrical work, special effort is
directed toward training the initiative and the independent powers of
thought of the students, so that they may truly make themselves masters
of the principles studied, and may thereby lay the foundation for creative
professional work. To develop initiative, students are urged, in the senior
year, to elect and submit reports on one or more engineering problems re-
quiring analytical investigative work. The studies may be of an economi-
cal, historical, statistical, theoretical or experimental type. Studies of un-
usual merit are filed as theses in the University Library.