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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

a modern railroad bridge, models, drawings, photographs, and lithographs. Winter term, full study. Professor BAKER. Required: Civil Eng'g 12 and free-hand sketches with dimensions, showing full details of a bridge measured by the student. 14. BRIDGE DESIGN.—Each student designs a bridge, proportioning the sections and working out the details, and afterwards makes a complete set of drawings. Sf ring term, full study. Professor BAKER. Required: Civil Engineering 12, 13. 15. TUNNELING.—This course, treating of methods of tunneling and mine attack, is given to students of civil engineering. The lectures treat first of the nature and use of explosives, compressed air, and power drills. The methods of tunneling are then explained and discussed, with their accompanying methods of timbering and walling. Attention is given to the sinking of shafts for trie working of-tunnels, or for the purpose of driving. The details of the duties of a tunnel engineer are made as clear and concise as possible. Students are required to make written reports upon the methods employed in particular tunnels. Some time is given in the earlier part of the course to the practice in boring wells, dredging, quarrying, and sub-aqueous blasting. Winter term, half study. Professor BAKER. Required: Math. 2, 4, 6; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3, 4; Mechanical Engineering 1, 16, 17; Chemistry 1; Physics 1.

16. ENGINEERING CONTRACTS AND SPECIFICATIONS.—A study is

made of the fundamental principles of the law of contract, and of examples of the general and technical clauses of various kinds used in engineering specifications. Johnson's Engineering Contracts and Sf educations. Spring term, two-fifths study. Professor BAKER. Required: Civil Engineering 5, 12, 13; Municipal and Sanitary Engineering 2, 3.

17. RAILROAD STRUCTURES. 7—Instruction is given by lectures and

references to standard authorities. Designs and working drawings are made of minor railroad structures, trestles, culverts, turntables, water tanks, engine houses, etc. Bills of material and estimates of cost are prepared. Attention is given to timber specifications and inspections, and to the various preservative processes. Current practice is studied by the examination of existing structures and by means of a collection of the standard drawings of leading railroads, Winter term, full study. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required; Civil Engineering 4.