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UNIVERSITY

OF

ILLINOIS.

Stone Work.—Stone, brick, lime, mortar, cement; foundations; retaining walls; arches, etc. Topography.—Use of stadia, plane table and level; contours; soundings. Sketching, mapping, conventional signs; city and country maps. Theory of Engineering Instruments.—Examination of workmanship and design; testing instrument maker's adjustments; engineer's adjustments; determination of areas with transit; inaccessable and air line distances; profiles; heights and distances with stadia; measurement of angles with sextant, etc.

PRACTICE.

In the fall term of the second year the class will solve numerous problems in distances, areas, etc., using the chain, compass and plane table. During the winter term the student will have practice with'all the engineering instruments and solve problems with the transit, stadia, level and sextant. In the spring term the class makes a careful topographical survey of a locality, using the stadia and plane table as in the United States surveys. In the fall term of the third year the class will execute a project in railroad engineering, which will consist of preliminary surveys, location, staking out, drawings, computations of earth work, etc. The preliminary survey will consist in an examination of the locality, and in running tangent lines, with leveling and topographical sketching. The location will consist in running the line over the route decided upon, with all the necessary measurements and calculations for establishing the grade, setting slope stakes, etc. The drawings will include alignment, profile, plans, etc. A project in geodesy or higher engineering will be executed during the fall term of the senior year. During this term the students have exercises in practical astronomy.

APPARATUS.

For Field Practice.—The school is well provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice, which include chains, tape, compass, plane table, stadias, transits, levels barometer for barometrical leveling, base rods and comparing apparatus, sextants, engineer's transits arranged for astronomical observation.