240 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

GRADUATION IN A SHCOND ENGINEERING COURSE

Graduates in any of the engineering courses may graduate in any other
engineering course after one year of additional study. Students who con-
template doing this should, however, make their elections, especially in the
senior year, with this end in view.

SUMMER VACATION WORK

All engineering students are required to take summer vacation work in
addition to the work of the four academic years. For civil engineering stu-
dents this work consists of four weeks of topographic engineering field work
and two weeks of railway engineering field work. These courses are given
at the University Survey Camp at Devils Lake, Wisconsin. For mechani-
cal engineers the requirement consists of not less than six weeks of ap-
proved summer work in industrial practice. Electrical engineers are re-
quired to take six weeks of approved summer work in an engineering or
industrial organization. The chemical engineers are required to work five
weeks, at the close of the junior year, in the university laboratory on chemi-
cal manufacture. Mining engineers spend a considerable portion of two
summer vacations at work in the different mining regions and metallurgical
centers. A very detailed report is submitted of their observations of condi-
tions, methods, and operations in the district visited. In addition the long
mine and metallurgical inspection trip is taken at the end of the junior year.

INSPECTION TRIPS

Inspection trips, for visiting industrial plants, are required of all engi-
neering students during the junior and senior years. They are arranged
and conducted by members of the faculty of the various departments and
are designed to illustrate the work of the several courses.

The electrical and mechanical engineers take the trip in the autumn of
the senior year. The trip takes a week’s time and visits are made to plants
in Milwaukee, Kenosha, Waukegan, Chicago, Buffington, and Gary.

The civil engineers visit the cities of Chicago and Milwaukee, the
former in the spring of the junior year, the latter in the autumn of the
senior year. Each of these trips takes three or four days.

The chemical engineers make a week’s visit to Milwaukee, Chicago, and
points near by in the spring of the junior year.

In the second semester of the freshman year, mining engineers take a
trip to a mine in one of the nearer districts for the purpose of a complete
mine survey, and while there make a complete inspection of the operation.

In metallurgy the students annually inspect the metallurgical works
around Chicago, the trip lasting a week.

At the end of the junior year or, if advisable, just after their com-
mencement, students in the courses in mining and metallurgy are required
to take a long western inspection trip, visiting mining and metallurgical
centers throughout the northwest. This trip lasts about six weeks.

THESES

In all courses, candidates for a second or a professional degree in
engineering shall submit a thesis. The thesis requirements for the B.S.
degree in the different courses in the College of Engineering are as follows: