Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 194]

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paper; must be illustrated with such p h o t o g r a p h s , drawings and sketches as m a y be needed; and embellished with a title page neatly printed or lettered with India ink or colors. I t will be prepared during the l a t t e r p a r t of the fourth year, and presented a t the close of the course, after which it will be deposited in the library of the University.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

Our friends and students are invited t o send us specimens of material and manufactures, and drawings, models, or photog r a p h s of machinery, bridges, and other engineering and architectural works. Finished and detailed working drawings, perhaps otherwise useless, m a y be of g r e a t value for instruction. Illustrated circulars and price lists of manufacturing firms are desired. Contributions will be labeled with donors' names, and placed in t h e museum of industrial a r t s for the inspection of students and the illustration of lectures.

SCHOOL O F MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

OBJECT O F THE SCHOOL.

This school seeks t o prepare students for the profession of mechanical engineering. I t aims t o fit them t o invent, design, construct and m a n a g e machinery for a n y branch of manufactures. The s t a t e needs men who, t o a t h o r o u g h knowledge of the principles of machinery and of the various m o t o r s , add the practical skill necessary t o design and construct t h e machines by which these m o t o r s are made t o do work.

INSTRUCTION.

The instruction, while severely scientific, is thoroughly practical. I t aims a t a clear understanding and mastery of all mechanical principles and devices. Practice in t h e work-shop is required as one of the studies of the course. In principles instruction is imparted by lectures, illustrated plates, and t e x t books. Examples are given, showing the application of the theories and principles t a u g h t . Experiments in the testing of machines and m o t o r s are undertaken by the student. In practice elementary forms are produced and projects are executed, in which the student constructs machines, or p a r t s thereof, of his own designing, and from his own working drawings. In designing the student begins with elements and proceeds with progressive exercises till he is able t o design and represent complete machines.