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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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46 Illinois Industrial University, perhaps otherwise useless, may be of great value for instruction. Illustrated circulars and price lists of manufacturing firms are desired. Contributions will be labelled with donors' names, and placed in the Museum of Engineering and Architecture, for the inspection of students and the illustration of lectures. SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. This school seeks to prepare students for the profession of Mechanical Engineering. It aims to fit them to invent, design, construct, and manage machinery for any branch of manufactures. The State needs men who, to a thorough knowledge of the principles of machinery and of the various motors, add the practical skill necessary to design and construct the machines by which these motors are made to do work. INSTRUCTION. The instruction, while severely scientific, is thoroughly practical. It aims at a clear understanding and mastery of all mechanical principles and devices. Practice in the Mechanical Laboratory, is counted as one of the studies of the course. In principles instruction is imparted by lectures, illustrated plates, and by text books. Examples are given showing the application of the theories and principles taught. Experiments in the testing of machines and motors are undertaken by the student. In practice elementary forms are produced and projectsare executed, in which the student constructs machines, or parts 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 to design and represent complete machines. MECHANICAL ART AND DESIGN. An elementary course of shop practice has been carefully arranged, to familiarize the student with the forms of the parts of machines, and the mode of producing them. He is made familiar with all the ordinary cutting tools for iron or wood ; with the form and condition for most effective work; with the machines and appliances by which they are put in action, and
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