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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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College of Engineering. 47 tions for establishing the grade, setting slope stakes, determining the amount of earthwork, etc. The Drawings will include Alignment, Profile, Plans, and Sections. The estimates will give the cost of ground, earthwork structures, superstructure, etc. A project in Geodesy, or Higher Engineering, will be execucuted during the Senior year. APPARATUS. The School is provided with both English and American Instruments for the different branches of Engineering Practice, and for the Astronomical work of Higher Surveying. It has numerous models for illustration of its specialties, and access to the cabinets of the other Schools. To facilitate the practice in Trigonometrical and Land Surveying, it has a specially prepared area, 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. This area is subdivided by a large number of lines, the positions of which are accurately known, but not by the student. He is then required to determine the position of the "' corners" by various ' methods, and to calculate the enclosed areas. Other problems are given in determining inaccessible distances, passing obstacles, avoiding local attractions, etc., for which the ground is prepared. The number of divisions is so large that no two students need have the same problem, and so accurately laid out that the correctness of the stiv dent's work can at once be determined. An Astronomical Observatory for meridian observations, and of suitable size for the practical exercises in Astronomy, has been erected and is in use. An Equatorial telescope has also been mounted for the use of the students. The library is well supplied with the latest and best books upon engineering subjects. CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSE. Required for Degree of B. S. in School of Civil Engineering. FIRST YEAR. 1. Plane Trigonometry; Algebra and Adv. Geometry; Projection Drawing-; French. -. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering; French. 3. Calculus; Free-Hand Drawing; French,
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