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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

This school is intended to prepare students for the profession of Mechanical Engineering-. It is designed to supply a class of men long needed, not simply practical nor wholly theoretical, but who, guided by correct principles, shall be found fully competent to invent, design, construct, or manage machinery, in the various industrial pursuits. The instruction, while severely scientific, is also thoroughly practical, aiming at a clear understanding and mastery of all mechanical principles and devices. Practice in the Mechanical Laboratory is counted asone of the studies of the course, and is combined with the theoretical training.

PLAN OF INSTRUCTION.

Instruction in this school is two-fold: First, Principles; and Second, Practice. The instruction in Principles is imparted by lectures, and recitations from text books combined with the use of plates and illustrative models. Numerous examples are also given, showing the application of the theories and principles taught. Experiments in the testing of machines and motors are also undertaken by the student. The Practical Instruction consists mainly in the execution of Projects, in which the student is required to produce machines, or parts thereof, of his own designing, and from his own working drawings. The students, in class exer. cises, use the machinery and tools of the Machine and Pattern Shops and Foundry, under the eye of a competent teacher, and according to the most approved methods of Machine Shop Practice (see details of Projects below). The Practical instruction is not intended to teach the trade merely, but is added as a necessary adjunct of the theoretical training.

COURSE OF STUDIES.

The Course is given by the year and term in the tabular view of the several courses of the College. The order of the studies there indicated should be followed as closely as possible, that the student may avoid confliction in the times of recitation. The following is a detailed view, by Branches, of the Technical studies of the Course. PURE MATHEMATICS.—See Department of Pure Mathematics as far as Calculus of Variations. APPLIED MATHEMATICS.—Cinematics, and Principles of Mechanism.—Kelative Motion of points in any system of connected lines or pieces; Motion considered independent of force ; Velocity-ratio ; Investigation of the motion of different elementary parts of machines, such as Friction and Curve Wheels in rolling contact, Cams and Curves in sliding contact; Correct working Gear Teeth; Gearing Chains; Escapement Link-work. Analytical Mechanics— Equations of Equilibrium ; Movements ; Virtual Velocities ; Center of Gravity ; Mechanical Powers; Friction ; Relation of Motion, Force and Mass. Hydraulics. —Amount and Center of pressure upon submerged surfaces ; Flow of Liquids through Orifices, Weirs, Pipes and Channels, Distribution of water in cities. Thermodynamics.—Thermal, and Thermometric Units ; Sensible, Specific and