Repository: UIHistories Project: Engineering Open House Guide - 1920 (Watt Centennial) [PAGE 6]

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Second Floor Civil Engineering Department. Offers instruction in surveying, mapping, steel and reinforced structures, drainage, irrigation, and road construction. 1. Structural engineering models and test pieces. 2. Bridge design drawings and pictures. 3. Drainage and irrigation maps and charts. Third Floor Machine Design of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Concerned with the design and construction of power plants, manufacturing plants, and individual machines. 1. Display of student work. Power plant designs, problem in balancing an automobile engine, etc. 2. Working models of machines. Fourth Floor Department of Architecture which gives training in the production of correct, thoughtful, and beautiful works of architecture; and the Department of Architectural Engineering which gives a ground work in mathematics and mechanics and applies these fundamentals to building engineering and construction. 1. The Ricker Library—one of the two finest Architectural Libraries in this country. 2. Unusual Mosaic portrait of Dr. N. C. Ricker. 3. Display of books of special interest to women. 4. Drafting room equipped with artificial daylight. 5. Statute of Hermes by Praxiteles, 390 B. C. 6. Full size reproduction of a Capital from the Parthenon, Greece. 7. Display of Rookwood pottery. 8. Exhibition of student work. 9. Structural drawings made by students for a seventeenstory office building. First Floor Engineering Experiment Station. About 2000 bulletins are distributed per month on special request. In addition, about 7000 per month are sent to addresses on the regular mailing list. (See statements concerning cooperative investigations at the back of the program.)