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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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64 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING The design in this department is to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, accompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, which will enable the student to enter intelligently upon the various and important duties of the civil engineer. While the instruction aims to be practical by giving the student information and practice directly applicable in his future professional work, the prime object is the development of the mental faculties. The power to acquire information, and the ability to use it, is held to be of far greater value than any amount of so-called practical knowledge. EQUIPMENT. This department has an extensive equipment of compasses, engineers'transits, solar transits, levels—ordinary and precise —plane tables, barometers, etc. An Observatory is provided with the instruments necessary in determining latitude, time, and azimuth. The equipment includes two astronomical transits, a 10-inch altazimuth reading to seconds, two clocks, two chronographs, three chronometers, two sextants, and five isolated masonry piers. For the lecture room, the department is provided with full-size joints of an actual railroad bridge, sections of columns, eye-bars, etc., and a large collection of lithographs, photographs, and blue prints of bridges and buildings. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION Required for the Degree of B. S, in Civil Engineering First Year 1. Advanced Algebra (Math. 2); Elements of Drafting (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 1); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1 and 2; Military 1 and 2. 2. Trigonometry and Advanced Algebra (Math. 2 and 4); Descriptive Geometry (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 2); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1, 2; Military 1, 2. 3. Analytical Geometry (Math. 6); Lettering and Sketching (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 3 and 4); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1, 2; Military 2. Second Year 1. Differential Calculus (Math. 7); Land Surveying (Civil Eng'g 1); Physics 1 and 3; Rhetoric 2; Military 2.
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