Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 45]

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CIVIL ENGINEERING.

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FOURTH YEAR. 1. Masonry Construction (Civil Eng'g 5); Superintendence, Estimates, and Specifications (Arch. 12); Heating and Ventilation (Arch. 13); Thesis. 2. Bridge Analysis (Civil Eng'g 8); Architectural Perspective (Arch. 14); or Advanced Graphics (Arch. 19); Architectural Designing (Arch. 16); Thesis. 3. Bridge Design (Civil Eng'g 8); Surveying (Civil Eng'g 10); Architectural Designing (Arch. 17); Thesis.

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The design is to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, accompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, wtiich will enable the student to enter intelligently upon the various and important duties of the civil engineer. Instruction.—While the instruction aims to be practical by giving the student information and practice directly applicable in his future professional work, the prime object is the development of the mental faculties. The power to acquire information and the ability to use it, is held to be of far greater value than any amount of so-called practical acquirements. The method of instruction consists in coupling the development of intellectual power with the acquisition of information directly useful to the civil engineer in his profession. The instruction is given by lectures, text books, and reading, to which are added numerous problems and practical exercises, such as will best serve to explain principles completely and fix them in the mind. Models and instruments are continually used, both in lectures and by the students. Equipment.—This department has an extensive equipment of compasses, railroad transits, solar transits, levels, plane tables, barometers, etc. A small observatory is provided with the instruments necessary in determining latitude, time, and azimuth. The equipment includes an astronomical transit, a 10-inch altazimuth reading to seconds, three chronometers, two sextants, and five isolated masonry piers. For the lecture room, the department is provided with full size joints of an actual railroad bridge, sections of columns, eye-bars, etc., and a very large collection of lithographs, photographs, and blue prints of bridges and buildings.