Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 100]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 3,

While I am not yet ready to make a complete report for the College of Engineering, it seems desirable that I present for your consideration and approval my recommendations in so far as I can formulate them at the present time. After a very careful consideration, I desire to recommend that the College of Engineering be authorized to offer the two following short curriculums: Short Curriculum in Drafting and Inspection for Women This short curriculum is planned to train women in mechanical drafting, blueprinting, and shop inspection work. The curriculum requires for its completion one full semester with seven hours of attendance each day, for five and one-half days per week. Candidates for admission to this curriculum must be graduates of an accredited high school, and they must present one and one-half units of preparatory credit in algebra, and one unit in plane geometry. A single fee of $25.00 is required of all persons registering in this curriculum. The courses required to complete this curriculum are as follows: Mathematics 2, college algebra; Mathematics 4, plain trigonometry; Physical Training 7a; General Engineering Drawing 12, Drafting and Inspection,—Complete and intensive work in mechanical drafting, including freehand lettering, orthographic projection, machine sketching, working drawings, tracing and blue-printing. Brief explanation of the principles of isometric and oblique projections. Simple graphical representations of statistical data. Shop inspection work, including calibration, the use of gages, inspection of materials, castings and machines. Lectures and demonstrations on heat and chemical treatment of metals and alloys, and the relation between their properties. Elementary work on the strength and properties of materials with illustrative laboratory exercises. This course in General Engineering Drawing is a new course designed particularly for this short curriculum. It will require somewhat over thirty hours per week of the student's time, and it will be given by the Department of General Engineering Drawing in cooperation with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Should any of the young women who complete this short curriculum desire to continue as students in the University, it is recommended that not to exceed four hours of University credit be allowed for this course, although the time requirements are such as to make it the equivalent of a 10-credit hour course. Short Curriculum in the Mechanic Arts This short curriculum is designed for the purpose of offering courses in the various shop laboratories to young men who desire to become familiar with the general principles underlying the operation of tools and machines, and the application of these principles to such work as the maintenance and repair of internal combustion engines. Candidates for admission to this curriculum must be at least sixteen years of age, and they must have completed the work of the eighth grade. The curriculum requires for its completion one full semester's work, with a program involving eight hours of work per day for five and one-half days each week, with the usual University holidays. A single fee of $35.00 is required of all persons registering in this curriculum.