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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

ADVANCED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY.—This

work is a continuation of the work begun in the junior year. Experiments are made with engines, pumps, motors, injectors, and boilers to determine under what conditions they may be expected to give a maximum effiiciency. Tests of plants in the vicinity are made, of which carefully prepared reports are always required. Through the kindness of Mr. W. Renshaw, Superintendent of Machinery of the Illinois Central Railroad, opportunities will be afforded to do practical work in locomotive testing, and considerable apparatus has been constructed for this important work. A dynamometer car is now owned and operated by the department and the P. & E. Div. of the "Big Four" Ry., which furnishes unexcelled opportunities for experimental railway engineering. Advanced constructive work in the shops is assigned to groups of students, in order to impress upon them the intimate relation existing between the designing room and the shop. Carpenter's Experimental Engineering. I.; M., F.; arrange time; ; (4) ; II.; M., F.; 1; (2). Professor BRECKENRIDGE, Assistant

Professor VANDERVOORT, and Mr. OLIVER.

Required: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2, 3 ; Mechanical Engineering 1 to 7, 14, 15.

13. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY.—This is a labora-

tory course in which the student is taught to apply the indicator to different engines and to make the usual calculations of horse power and steam consumption as given by the diagrams. Correct forms of reducing motions are explained. How to read indicator diagrams and valve setting ig also taught. Indicator Practice and Steam Engine Economy—F. F. Hemenway. II.; Th., F.; 6, 7, 8; (2). Mr.

OLIVER.

Required: Mechanical Engineering 1, 2; Math. 7, 8, 9.

14. HIGH SPEED STEAM ENGINE AND VALVE GEARS.—Under this

head the steam engine is carefully studied. Each part of a complete engine is designed, and detailed drawings made and traced, so that each member of the class may have a complete set of blue prints. The application of graphical diagrams as an aid in the study and design of valves for steam distribution in the engine cylinder is carefully brought out. Determination of the dimensions of steam passages, single valve gears, double valve gears, equalization of steam distribution, application of diagrams to existing types of engines.

Klein's High Speed Steam Engine. I.; Tu., W.. Th,; 2, 3, 4! (3)Assistant Professor VANDERVOORT.

Required: Mechanical Engineering 1 to 7, 16, 17; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2.