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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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180 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES veying, an area has been specially prepared in which the difficulties of plane surveying are presented to the beginner as he is able to meet them, and where he is taught practical methods of overcoming them. Bellows and Hodgman's Surveyor's Manual. Fall term, at 1J0, full credit. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: General Engineering Drawing I, 2, 3, 4; Math. 4. 2. TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING AND SURVEYING.—Topographical drawing is given during the bad weather of the winter term. The student spends about half a term making the standard topographical symbols. During the spring term topographical surveying is taught, in which students solve problems with the plane table and the stadia, and make a topographical survey and plot the notes. This and course 3 must be taken together. Winter and spring terms, at 1.IS, full credit. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: Civil Engineering 1. 3. TRANSIT SURVEYING AND LEVELING.—Construction, adjust- ment, and use of the transit and level; angles, inaccessible distances, and areas with the transit; profiles and contours with the level. The department is provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice. These instruments are in constant use by the students whenever the weather permits. This and course 2 must be taken together. Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. Winter and spring terms, at 1.15, full credit. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: 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. Godwin's Railroad Engineers' FieldBook, and Tratman's Track. Fall term, at 10.10, full credit; winter term, M., Tu., at 10, half credit. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: Civil Engineering 1, 2, 3. 5. MASONRY CONSTRUCTION.—The students have experiments in the masonry laboratory, in testing cement, mortar, stone, and brick. Baker's Masonry Construction. Fall term, at 8; laboratory, Tu., and Th., at 1.20, full credit. Professor BAKER. Required: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3, 4. 6. GEODESY.—Geodesy is taught by lectures and assigned reading. Problems are solved in barometrical, trigonometrical, and pre-
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