ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSE 255

According to their interests and aptitudes, the men who graduate from
this course engage in the following types of electrical engineering work:
research, design, maintenance, operating, construction, and sales engineer-
ing. The majority enter the employment of corporations owning electric
lighting, electric railway, electric power transmission, or telephone plants
(with the expectation of ultimately becoming superintendents, chief engi-
neers, Managers, or owners), the employment of contractors for the con-
struction of electrical plants, or the employment of manufacturers of elec-
trical and allied machinery. A considerable number of the graduates are
now found in administrative and teaching positions in the engineering
colleges.

GRADUATE STUDENTS. Graduates are offered instruction in advanced
theory, design, and experimental investigation relating to the several
branches of applied electricity. Students who are candidates for the doc-
tor’s or master’s degree are offered all the reasonable facilities for carrying
on either their major or minor elections in the Electrical Engineering De-
partment. The regulations relating to these degrees are enumerated on
another page of this bulletin.

The organization of the department is arranged to afford adequate
supervision to advanced students who are carrying on the investigation of
original problems, and excellent facilities are offered to such students in the
way of laboratory rooms and of special apparatus constructed by the college
mechanicians,

EQUIPMENT

The laboratory equipment may be classified under the headings:
Dynamo, Photometric, Electric Standards, High Tension, Communications
and Circuits, and General Research Equipment.

THE DYNAMO LABorRATORY. The transforming and converting machin-
ery which furnishes the electrical power for all of the electrical laboratories
is located in the dynamo laboratory. The electrical power for these labora-
tories is transmitted from the electrical substation of the University to the
necessary transforming and motor-generator equipment for furnishing
power at the following voltages and frequencies: Three-phase power at 110
volts and 25 and 60 cycles; and direct current power at 110, 220 and 500
volts.

The dynamo collection consists of a large number of continuous current
and alternating current dynamos and motors of different types and sizes.
Shunt, series, and compound, continuous current generators and motors;
single-, two- and three-phase alternating current generators; single-phase
and three-phase induction motors; sychronous motors and converters;
single-phase commutator type motors and transformers are supplied in
various sizes.

The equipment comprises more than fifty dynamos for exclusive labora-
tory use for the purpose of instruction and experiment. All apparatus
necessary for the accurate testing of dynamos is available. Large lamp
banks, water rheostats, and transformers for loading generators; special
prony brakes and electric dynamometers, for loading motors; and an un-
usually complete assortment of the well known types of ammeters, volt-
meters and wattmeters for making accurate electrical measurements are
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