Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 49]

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4:1 Several of the foregoing and some others were invented by the Instructors. Three patents have been allowed for the inventions made in this department during the past year. Apparatus.—The new Mechanical Building, which is to be ready for occupancy at the opening of the Fall term, in September next, will have a large machine shop fitted up with a steam engine, with power and hand lathes for iron and brass, a planer, drilling machine, a lathe for wood turning, benches and vises for a large class of students. It will also contain a boiler and forge room, with forges and tools, and brass furnace; a carpenter's shop, with benches and sets of bench tools, lathes, buzz and jig saws, etc.; paint and printing rooms, and draughting, finishing and model rooms. The College has also good collections of apparatus for the illustration of the principles of Physics and Mechanical Science. The following is the course of studies recommended:

FIRST YEAR—First Term.—Geometry, Drawing, English or Latin, History, two lectures a week. Second Term.—Geometry and Algebra, Descriptive Geometry, English or Latin, History. Third Term.—Algebra, Botany, English or Latin. SECOND YEAR—First Term.—Trigonometry, Designing and Drawing; Chemistry. Second Term.—Analytical Geometry; Shades, Shadows and Perspective, Shop Practice. Third Term.—Calculus, Shop Practice, Chemical Analysis. THIRD YEAR—First Term.—Calculus, Principles of Mechanism, French or German, History. Second Term.—Analytical Mechanics; Physics, French or German, History. Third Term.—Analytical Mechanics and Astronomy, Physics, French or German. FOURTH YEAR—First Term.—Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Thermo-Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Geology. Second Term.—Prime movers and mill work, Complete Drawings of existing machines and tools; History of Civilization Logic Third Term.—Mill work and machines ; Complete Drawings, estimates and designs, Constitutional Law, or Political Economy, Inductive Logic. 2.—SCHOOL O F CIVIL ENGINEERING.

This school is designed to make good practical Engineers, thoroughly prepared for all branches of Engineering work, Railroad surveys, Topographic and Geodesic Surveying, Bridge building, Government Surveying, etc. Several of the students, though not yet through their course, have already been honored with positions on the Coast Survey, and on important Railroads. Apparatus*—This school is provided with a good Engineer's transit, a compass, an English level, two leveling rods, two brazed link steel chains, Gunther's and Engineers' instruments for Stadia surveying, adopted in the Government Surveys. I t has also a model truss bridge 20 feet in length, with moveable braces, and other apparatus for practical illustration.