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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

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Diagrams, charts, models, and full sized tools and machines in possession of the University, are used in illustrating the lectures. Fall term, full study. Professor BALDWIN . Required: Math., 4; Chemistry, 1, 6; Physics, 1. 2. Mine Surveying.—Instruction is given by lectures and recitations, and includes the use of the solar compass, solar attachments, practice of the U. S. deputy surveyors, traverse survey with inclined measurements, connection of surveys above and below ground, and the determination of the position of bore holes, drifts, and shafts from data given or acquired by the students. The field work is carried along with the lectures. The University has three transit instruments especially adapted for underground work. The field work is under the personal supervision of the instructor, and all checks are made by the students, as in regular surveys. Complete plats, maps, drawings and calculations are required for all field work. Surveying in the mines for two weeks at the end of the term familiarizes the students with the peculiar features and difficulties of underground practice. Spring term, full study. Professor BALDWIN.

Required: Math., 4; General Engineering Drawing, 1, 3; Civil Engineering, 1, 2, 3. 3. Ore Dressing.—The fall term is devoted to ore dressing, and the course comprises lectures upon properties of ores in respect to subsequent treatment; theory of jigging and treatment of slimes; hand dressing; machine crushing, crushers, rolls, stamp mills, and pulverizers, etc.; sizing machinery, classifiers, and separators, etc.; sorting machinery; comparative economy and efficiency of different methods of treatment; typical dressing works. During the entire course the the students work in the laboratory, making mill and experimental tests upon a large scale. The laboratory is equipped for this purpose with a Dodge crusher, a pair of Cornish rolls, elevators with deflecting spouts, automatic sampler, sizing screens, jigs, hydraulic separator and rotating table. There is also a chlorine generator with tanks and vats. The machines are all of regular working size, driven with gearing by a steam engine, and worked in accordance with the practice of milling and testing laboratories. A complete series of assays is made of the products from each machine, and schemes of treatment and the speeding of the machine are worked out from the data. Fall term, full study. Professor BALDWIN. Required: Chemistry, 1, 6; Physics, 1; Mining Engineering, 1, 2.