CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSE 243

The four-year course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. The
degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy can be earned by
graduate work. The degree of Civil Engineer is granted to graduates of
the course who have had five years of successful practice in civil engineer-
ing and who comply with certain formalities.

EQUIPMENT

THE SURVEYING LABORATORY contains all instruments needed for exten-
sive triangulation, topographic. hydrographic, and railroad surveys, includ-
ing aneroid barometers, baseline apparatus, calculating machines, com-
passes, current meters, heliotropes, levels, invar tape, pantographs, plane
tables, planimeters, precise-levels, sextants, sounding apparatus, theodo-
lites, transits, and other smaller articles of surveying equipment.

THE BRIDGE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT owns several autographic ex-
tensometers, a deflectometer for determining bridge stresses under moving
train loads, and a Beggs Deformeter. The department also possesses a
large number of photographs, drawings, and lantern slides illustrating de-
tails, erection methods, and complete structures of a great variety of de-
signs.

THE TESTING LABORATORY is supplied with a 600,000-pound hydraulic
universal testing machine (designed in the laboratory) taking tension and
compression specimens 10 feet and beams 20 feet long; a Riehlé torsion
machine taking shafts 15 feet long and 8 inches in diameter; and 100,000-
pound Johnson beam machine taking beams 22 feet long; seven Olsen and

Riehlé universal machines from 10,000 to 200,000 pounds capacity; a Thurs- -

ton torsion machine; a Russell impact machine; machines for fatigue tests
of metals; Brinnell, Rockwell and scleroscope hardness testers; several
small beam and wire machines; a 5-ton refrigerator for freezing tests; a
Smith concrete mixer; a good equipment for tests of plain and reinforced
concrete; and appliances for testing road-building material. There is a full
supply of necessary apparatus for making standard tests of cement baths,
self-recording thermometers, complete equipment of 1,000-pound Riehlé and
Olsen testing machines, ete.

HYDRAULIC LABORATORY. A special building for this laboratory is lo-
cated on the shore of Lake Mendota. It is equipped for theoretical, experi-
mental, and research work. The facilities are especially good for studying
those problems where large quantities of water are needed. A direct-con-
nected 30-inch centrifugal pump furnishes up to 35,000 gallons of water a
minute under a twelve-foot head. This water is delivered into a receiving
chamber connected with various conduits and channels. Investigations can
be conducted covering the flow in such channels and conduits together with
the effects thereon of dams, weirs, racks, submerged orifices, and other fea-
tures encountered in water power work.

A concrete reservoir, 50 ft. in diameter by 15 ft. deep, with a capacity
of 220,000 gallons, is located on the bluffs at an elevation of about 60 ft.
above the laboratory. It is connected to the laboratory by a 16-inch deliv-
ery pipe and 10-inch supply line. Its installation has made possible experi-
ments which require a considerable flow of water under a very steady head,
tests on turbines under heads up to 50 feet and the ready calibration of the
largest weirs in the laboratory.

Very favorable facilities are afforded for the study of losses due to
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