Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 25]

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29 ante-room, when closed, becomes a dark room, admirably adapted to such experiments as require total absence or perfect control of light. The ante-room and apparatus room occupy the center and on one side of the laboratory, leaving a space on the remaining three sides in which 50 students could work together, if occasion should require. Here are arranged the several forms of apparatus required for the experiments. The study of physics occupies two college terms, in which there are each week five recitations from a text-book, one lecture and four hours of laboratory practice. In the latter, a series of about forty experiments are performed by each student, two working together according to a programme arranged for the purpose. Besides the written directions for the method of procedure, the student has the aid of the Professor and his assistants, when needful. Careful notes and calculated results are required, on paper of a given size.

MECHANICAL ENGINEEPJNG COURSE.

Required for the Degree of B. S., in School of Mechanical

FIRST YEAB.

Engineering.

1. Trigonometry; Projection Drawing; Shop Practice; French or German. 2. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry or Lettering; Shoi) Practice; French or German. 3. Calculus; Free Hand Drawing; Shop Practice; French or German.

SECOND YEAE.

1. Designing and Construction of Machines; Advanced Algebra; German or French. 2. Advanced Analytical Geometry; Designing and Construction of Machines; German or French. 3. Advanced Calculus; Astronomy; German or French.

THIRD YEAR.

1. Mechanism and Mechanical Laboratory; Advanced Descriptive Geometry; Chemistry and Laboratory Practice. 2. Analytical Mechanics; Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Physics. 3. Analytical Mechanics; Modern History; Physics.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. Resistance of Materials and Hydraulics; Geology; Mental Science. 2. Prime Movers; Constitutional History; Construction Drawing. 3. Mill Work; Designing and Laboratory Practice; Political Economy.

In this course the student will take two years of French or German, but not one year of each. SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.

OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL.

The School is designed to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, accompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, which will enable students to enter intelligently upon the various and important duties of the engineer.