Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 39]

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35 patterns and castings, finish the parts and put them together in accordance with the working drawings. He thus performs the difficult as well as the easy portions of the work, often repeating pieces seyeral times until up to the required standard of workmanship. The practical instruction will acquaint the student with the manner in which the mechanical engineer carries his designs into execution, and teach him to so shape, proportion and dispose all the parts of a machine as to secure the greatest economy in construction, and durability in use. Experiment in the testing of prime movers and other machines will be undertaken by the classes. Every class in prime movers will take indicator diagrams from the engine of the mechanical laboratory, and determine from them the power developed by the steam while working with different degrees of expansion. Journals of Travel are required to be kept during the summer vacations by those students who complete the course of studies of the school. Entries should be made as often as once a week, and consist of notices of manufactories; and especially of their peculiar mechanical methods, or peculiar machines employed or produced. Dimensions of large or otherwise important machinery, such as large stationary engines of water-works, blowing or hoisting engines, and machinery in use in mining or other operations, may also form the subject of record. The journals of the first vacation are to be read and discussed in connection with the class of Designing and Shop Practice\ and those of the second vacation in connection with the class of Cinematics and Principles of Mechanism. Reports or Memoirs upon visits and observations of the third vacation will be expected instead of journals, to be read in the class of Machine Drawing during the middle term of the fourth year. These reports should be made upon rare and interesting mechanical operations or machinery, such as making gas pipe ; sx>inning of zinc, copper and brass ware ; manufacture of saws, etc. These reports will be placed on file, or bound for use in the library of the school. They should, therefore, be illustrated by ample sketches and drawings. The journals should also be illustrated by sketches reproduced upon the blackboard when the journal is read. A Thesis will be required at the end of the fourth year, of those who complete the studies of the course. It will consist of a written memoir or discussion, illustrated by drawings, when necessary, upon some allowed subject of mechanical engineering. The thesis is to be read and defended by the student before the class.