Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 44]

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Parallels and Meridians; Methods of the U. S. Surveys; Barometric Measurements. Land Surveying.—Areas; Distances; Omissions and Corrections ; Standard Units; Metrical System; Refractional Curvature of the Earth; Theories of Surveying Instruments ; Adjustment of Instruments. R.R. Surveying.—Curves ; Turnouts; Crossings; Obstructions; Slope Stakes; Earth-work, Grades; Curvature of Rails; Coning of Wheels ; Calculation and use of Tables. DKAWING.—Projection D.—Use of Instruments in applying the Elements of Descriptive Geometry; Use of Water Colors; Isometrical Drawing; Shades, Shadows and Perspective; Drawings finished in colors and by right-line shading; Right and Oblique Arches. Free Sand.—Landscapes, Buildings, etc. ,• Lettering and Ornamental Work. Topographical.—Sketching; Ink Drawings; Conventional Signs, etc. Mapping.—Railroad, and City and County Maps. Architectural.—Designing and Drawing of Engineering Structures. , % NATURAL SCIENCE.—Physics and Descriptive Astronomy.—See Department of Physics and Astronomy. Chemistry.—Inorganic Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis. Geology.—Elements of Physiographic, Lithological, Historical and Dynamical Geology. ENGINEERING. —Road Engineering.—Location and Construction of Roads and Railroads; Grades ; Gauges ; Tunnels, etc. Resistance of Materials.—Elasticity; Safe Limits ; Shearing Stress; Elexure and Strength of Beams and Columns; Practical Formulas. Trusses.—Analysis of a variety of Roofs and Erames, with methods for obtaining the strains. Bridge Construction.—Warren's, Howe's, and other Trusses; Tubular and Suspension Bridges ,• Arches, etc. Stone Work.—Stone; Limes and Mortars ; Eoundations, etc. SPECIAL EXERCISES.

VACATION JOURNALS.—Journals are required to be kept by each student during his second and third vacations. They must be written as often as once a week, and will contain accounts of his travels and occupations, with special reference to matters pertaining to his chosen profession, and general attention to all scientific and industrial facts. They will be presented during the Fall terms, read before the class, interesting facts discussed, and marked and credited as studies of the course. It is recommended that students employ their vacations in Engineering practice. To facilitate this important part of their preparation, students of creditable standing at the ends of the second and third years of their courses, can obtain certificates to this effect from the Professor in charge. Projects and Vacation Memoirs.—During the Spring Term of the second year, an accurate topographical survey of a locality is made by the class, with reference to the execution of a project in railroad engineering, which is then given to the class for consideration and discussion, but which is executed in the Fall Term of the next year. The plane table is used as in the TJ. S. surveys. The project consists of memoirs, location, drawings and estimates. The memoir will propose a location for a railroad to fulfill certain exact requirements, and will state the reasons for the choice, with the necessary calculations and estimates. It will be presented at the opening of the Fall Term. Different memoirs will be compared, and one or two routes decided upon for the class to work up. The location will consist in running the line over the routes decided upon, with all the necessary measurements and calculations for estab-