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Caption: Course Catalog - 1893-1894
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IO6 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. course 3 must be taken together. Winter and spring terms, half study. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: Math. 4; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3; Civil Engineering 1. 3. Transit Surveying and Leveling.—Construction, adjustment, and use of the transit and level; angles, inaccessible distances, and areas with the transit; profiles and contours with the level. Two weeks' time is given to practice in running railroad CHrves. The department is provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice, including chains, tapes, compasses, plane tables, stadias, transits, levels, barometers, base rods, and comparing apparatus, sextants, and solar transits. These instruments are in constant use by the students whenever the weather will permit. This and course 2 must be taken together. Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. Winter and spring terms, half study. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: Math. 4; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3. Civil Engineering 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. Assistant Professor PENCE. 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
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