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CIVIL ENGINEERING

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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, engineer's transits, solar transits, levels—ordinary and precise— plane tables, barometers, etc. An Observatory is provided with the instruments necessary in determining latitude, time, and azimuth. The equipment includes two astronomical transits, a 10-inch altazimuth reading to seconds, two clocks, two chronographs, 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 large collection of lithographs, photographs, and blue prints of bridges and buildings.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

Required for the Degree of B. 8. in Civil Engineering

FIRST YEAR

1. Advanced Algebra (Math. 2); Elements of Drafting and Sketching (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 1 and 4); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1 and 2; Military 1 and 2. 2. Trigonometry (Math. 4); Descriptive Geometry (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 2); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1, 2 ; Military 1, 2. 3. Analytical Geometry (Math. 6) ; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering (Drawing, Gen. Eng'g 2 and 3); Shop Practice (Mech. Eng'g 1); French 5, or German 5, or English 1,2; Military 2.

SECOND YEAR

1. Differential Calculus (Math. 7); Land Surveying (Civil Eng'g 1); Physics 1 and 3 ; Rhetoric 2 ; Military 2. 2. Advanced Analytical Geometry (Math. 8); Drawing and Surveying (Civil Eng'g 2 and 3); Physics 1 and 3 ; Rhetoric 2 ; Military 2.