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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

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laboratory work. Large additions have lately been made to the apparatus in this department. The equipment of the electrical laboratory adds greatly to the facilities for the treatment of electricity in general physics.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

It is the object of this course to give the student a thorough training in the theoretical principles underlying the science of machines and mechanics, and at the same time to enable him to become practically familiar with some of the numerous applications of these principles which have become of such inestimable value to the human race.

INSTRUCTION.

The methods of instruction vary with the subjects under consideration Text-books, lectures, examples, drawing room work, technical readings, models, reports, laboratory and shop practice—all have important places. It is the aim to keep the student interested in his work, with the belief that it is only under such a condition that he will receive the maximum benefit from his work. A practical course in drawing and designing extends through the entire course. Shop or laboratory practice is also a part of each term's work.

EQUIPMENT.

In addition to recitation and drawing room facilities, which will be unexcelled upon the completion of the new Engineering Hall, the department has a Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, described under the head "Laboratories," as well as a machine shop, wood shop, forge shop, and foundry, whose equipment is described below. Machine Shop.—Twelve engine lathes of from twelve to twenty inches swing; two ten-inch speed lathes; one centering lathe; one fifteeninch Gould and Eberhardt shaper; one twelve-inch Hendy shaper; one Brainard universal milling machine; one milling machine, made in the shop; one twenty-four by twenty-inch by five foot Putnam planer; one thirty by thirty-inch by eight foot Gray planer; two drill presses; one sensitive drill press; one three-spindle drill press; one No. 2 improved Brown and Sharpe universal grinding machine; one center grinding machine; one Stover power hack saw; complete sets of U. S. standard