Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 102]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

[September 3,

41. Advanced Mechanics of Materials.—Special problems met particularly in various departments of the army and navy, such as thick cylinders, hooped and wirewound guns, forces on gun carriages, interior ballistics, flat plates, bulk heads, curved beams, chain links, rings, unsymmetrical bending, elastic strength of materials as affected by heat treatment and over-strain, impact stresses, stresses in revolving discs, critical speeds, external collapsing pressure of thin-walled vessels. Methods of attack. The special application of principles of mechanics to machine parts and structures. I; (3). Professor SEELY Prerequisites: T. & A. M. 20 and 25 or 29.

42. The Properties of Engineering Materials, Specifications and Inspection.— The properties and uses of materials of construction, iron, steel, non-ferrous metals, wood, concrete, brick, and stone. Standard specifications for materials; methods of inspection; specifications and inspection for munitions and other war materials. II; (2). Prerequisites: T. & A. M. 20 and 25 or 29. Professor MOORE

44. Laboratory Work in Testing Materials.—Study of testing machines and strain measuring apparatus; practise in making standard tests in tension, compression, and flexure, Torsion tests, impact tests, hardness tests, repeated stress tests, and tests of special forms. Systematic tabulation and reduction of test data. Laboratory and computing room periods. This course is planned to serve those who wish to take positions in testing laboratories of the Government or of manufacturers. II; (3). Prerequisites: T. & A. M. 20 and 25 or 29. Professor MOORE 45. Naval Hydromechanics.—Flotation of bodies, stability and rolling of ships, resistance and propulsion of ships, hydrodynamics. The application of the principles of mechanics to the stability and propulsion of ships. /,* (3). Dr. WESTERGAARD Prerequisite: T. & A. M. 20. Municipal and Sanitary Engineering 11. Sanitation and Sanitary Engineering.—Principles of sanitary science and their relation to the sanitation of camps, hospitals, institutions and communities. Sanitary engineering measures to prevent the transmission of disease. Mortality rates as affected by sanitation. Water supplies and water purification. Methods of sewerage and sewage disposal. The collection and disposal of garbage. House and camp sanitation. A general elementary course having army conditions in view.

I; (2 or 3). Professor ENGER

Prerequisite:

Junior standing.

Of these proposed courses, T. & A. M. 41, 42, and 44 would constitute a very satisfactory short curriculum to train testing engineers for work in the Government bureaus or in the industries. It was planned to give these three courses during the Summer Session, but too few students registered therein to justify the maintenance of these courses.