THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

F,. E. TURNEAURE, DEAN

ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE

The College of Engineering is organized in the belief that a thorough-
going fundamental training is the first essential to a successful engineer.
It is believed that this fundamental training may be best secured not alone
by theoretical study, but by giving attention as well to the practical appli-
cation of the principals involved. It is further a leading thought that after
the fundamental principles have been mastered, a certain measure of spe-
cialization in the main lines of engineering is advisable because of the great
development of engineering in recent years, and the various phases which it
is rapidly assuming. It is the endeavor of the college to combine a reason-
able amount of specialization during the later years of its courses with a
thorough grounding in the fundamentals during the earlier portions; and in
carrying out this plan, the mathematical and theoretical courses constitute
the main body of the program in the earlier years, and the later years are
devoted more largely to the applications of these fundamentals to engineer-
ing problems.

Engineering students are urged to take their elective work in foreign
language, advanced English, economics, public speaking, and other subjects
of a general rather than a technical nature.

BUILDINGS

The main building of the College of Mechanics and Engineering con-
tains the offices, recitation and drawing rooms, the engineering library,
laboratories for work in steam and gas engineering, and the testing of
materials. A second building contains the electrical laboratories; a third,
the various departments for shop instruction; a fourth, the laboratories for
chemical engineering; a fifth, the hydraulics laboratory; and a sixth, the
mining building, contains the ore dressing, assay, and metallurgical labora-
tories.

For chemistry the engineering students go to the Chemistry Building,
for physics to Sterling Hall, for natural sciences to Science Hall and the
Biology Building, and for language, mathematics, and other similar work
to the literary halls of the University. In this way the students of engi-
neering come into daily contact with the students in the other university
courses.

LIBRARIES

The Library of the College of Engineering is located in the Engineering
Building and contains a large collection of technical books and periodicals.
The current numbers of about 250 engineering periodicals are available in
the reading room, and the bound volumes in the library include complete
sets of all the important transactions and magazines. In addition to the
college library there are the University Library, containing about 377,500
volumes and 64,000 pamphlets, the Library of the State Historical Society

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