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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. will permit. spring terms, Required: Engineering,

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Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. Winter and half study. Professor BALDWIN. Math., 4; General Engineering Drawing, 1, 2, 3; Civil 1.

4. Railroad Engineering.—In the field practice, the class makes preliminary and location surveys of a line of railroad of sufficient length to secure familiarity with the methods of actual practice. Each student makes a complete set of notes, maps, profiles, calculations, and estimates. In addition to the mathematical theory of curves, turnouts, crossings, and the calculations of earth work, instruction is given by means of text-books and lectures on the principles of economic location, particularly the effect of distance, grade, and curve upon operation and maintenance, and of methods of construction, equipment, and maintenance of way. Godwin's Railroad Engineers' Field-Book. Fall term, full study; Winter term, with Municipal Sanitary Engineering, 1, makes a full study. Professor TALBOT. Required: Math., 4; General Engineering Drawing, 1, 2; Civil Engineering, 1, 2, 3. 5. Masonry Construction.—Requirements and methods of testing stone, brick, cement, and lime; composition, preparation, and strength of mortar and concrete; classification, construction, strength, cost of stone and brick masonry; foundations under water; theory of stability; cost, etc., of dams, retaining walls, bridge piers, bridge abutments, culverts, and arches. The students have experiments in the testing laboratory, in testing cement, mortar, stone, and brick. Baker's Masonry Construction. Fall term, full study. Professor BAKER.

Required: Math., 2, 4, 6, 7; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1, 2; General Engineering Drawing, 1, 2. 6. Geodesy.—Geodesy is taught by lectures and assigned reading. Studies are made of the instruments and methods employed inspirit, barometrical, and trigonometrical leveling; the apparatus and methods used in measuring base lines; the location and construction of stations; the method of measuring the angles and reducing the triangulation; the principles of projecting maps; the methods employed in running parallels and meridians. The apparatus consists of a 12inch alt-azimuth instrument reading to single seconds, a precise level, aneroid and mercurial barometers, three wooden base rods, a comparator, a steel tape with level, thermometer, and spring