Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 26]

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INSTRUCTION.

The instruction is given by lectures, text-books and reading, to which are added numerous problems and practical exercises, as serving best to explain completely subjects and fix them in the mind. Models and instruments are continually used, both in lectures and by the students themselves.

COURSE OF STUDIES.

The studies taught in this School, as belonging specially to it, are as follows: Projection Drawing, Ornamental Drawing and Lettering, Topographical Drawing and Mapping, Descriptive Geometry, Land Surveying, Topographical Surveying and Leveling, Road and Railroad Engineering, Geodetic Surveys, Practical Astronomy, Descriptive Astronomy, Analytical Mechanics, Bridge Analysis and Designing, Bridge Construction, Foundations and Stone Work. Students of this School pursue studies in other schools of the University. Arrangements are making for an advanced or post-graduate course in Civil Engineering, which will include the following special subjects: Advanced Bridges, Tunnelling, Water Supply Engineering, Harbor and River Improvements, Arches and Stone Work, Drainage and Sanitary Engineering, Practical Astronomy, Theory of Least Squares.

APPARATUS.

For Field Practice.—The School has an equipment of instruments for instruction in Engineering in field work, including chains, tapes, compasses, plane tables, transits, stadias, levels, base rods and comparing apparatus, barometer for barometical levelling, sextants, engineer's transits arranged for astronomical observations, an observatory which is provided with an equatorial telescope, an astronomical transit, a zenith telescope, a chronometer, and a set of meteorological instruments. A portable altitude and azimuth instrument of the latest and best form has lately been received from the celebrated makers, Troughton & Simms, of London. It is read by micrometer microscopes to single seconds, both of altitude and azimuth. This instrument will be used for instruction in Geodesy and Practical Astronomy. To facilitate practice in trigonometrical and land surveying, an area has been specially prepared in which the difficulties of plane surveying are presented to the beginner as he is able to meet them; and where he is taught practical methods of overcoming them. For the Lecture Room.—Models for illustrating the subjects of Descriptive Geometry, Astronomy, Rocf and Bridge Trusses, Arches and Stone Work, and Railroad Superstructure. The School has a collection of students' manuscripts and drawing, and of authentic designs of bridges, roofs and engineering structures. It has also a complete set of maps of both the Coast and Lake Surveys. The College of Engineering has received the very large and excellent collection of lithographs of the lectures and drawings used in the Governmental Polytechnical Schools of France. The students of this