Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 139]

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139 trating mechanical movements and elementary combinations of mechanism. This collection is rapidly increasing by our own manufacture, and by purchase from abroad. I t includes many of Riggs' models, and others from the celebrated manufactory of J. Schroeder, of Darmstadt, Germany. About two hundred valuable models from the United States patent office are also included in the cabinet. The state has provided a large mechanical laboratory and workshop. The pattern shop is furnished with complete sets of tools, benches and vises for pattern-makers. In a separate building are forges, a moulder's bench with sand, and brass and iron furnaces sufficient for the castings ordinarily required. Additional sets of tools are provided for the special use of students in the shop practice classes.

MECHANICAL E N G I N E E R I N G COURSE.

Required

for

Degree of B. S. in School of Mechanical

FIRST YEAR.

Engineering.

1. 2. 3.

Plane Trigonometry and Advanced Geometry ; Projection Drawing ; French. Analytical Geometry ; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering; French. Calculus ; Shop-practice and Free-hand Drawing ; French.

SECOND YEAR.

1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.

Designing and Construction of Machines ;. Advanced Algebra and Analytical Geometry; German. Advanced Calculus; Designing and Construction of Machines; German. Advanced Calculus ; Astronomy ; German.

THIRD YEAR.

Mechanism and Mechanical Laboratory; Advanced Descriptive Geometry ; Chemistry and Laboratory practice. Analytical Mechanics and Mechanical Laboratory ; Chemistry and Laboratory practice ; Physics. Analytical Mechanics ; Modern H i s t o r y ; Physics.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Resistance of Materials and Hydraulics ; Geology; Thermodynamics ; Pneumatics. P r i m e Movers ; Constitutional History; Construction Drawing. Mill W o r k ; Designing and Laboratory Practice; Political Economy, Graduating Thesis.

SCHOOL O F C I V I L E N G I N E E R I N G .

OBJECT O F T H E SCHOOL.

a The school is designed to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, ccompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, which will