Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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208 Sixteen Tears at the University of Illinois lished, many of which are recognized as distinct and important contributions to the science of engineering. Probably none of the activities of the College of Engineering is of greater importance or has received more favorable and widespread attention than the Engineering Experiment Station. It was the first Engineering Experiment Station ever established in connection with an educational institution. The work of the Station is carried on under the Director, who since 1909 has been the Dean of the College of Engineering, and an administrative staff composed of the heads of the several departments of the College. Much of the research work is conducted by investigators on full-time appointment, and by research fellows and assistants who give half-time to the investigations under way in the Station. STUDENT ENROLMENT As has been indicated, up to the year 1904-05 the College of Engineering had attained considerable prominence, and as a result attendance had been stimulated to a degree which made the College one of the largest in the country in point of student enrolment, a position which it has since maintained. The attendance in the College of Engineering here and in technical schools elsewhere reached a maximum in the year 1919-20, when the total enrolment of undergraduate engineering students at Illinois was 1,768. There are only two or possibly three institutions in the country which have a larger enrolment of engineering students than the University of Illinois. FACTJUTT Perhaps the most important development in the College of Engineering during the past sixteen years has been in the number of members of the regular staff of instruction. The College of Engineering was very badly undermanned sixteen years ago, as there were 20.9 students for each member of the staff of instruction at that time, while at present there are 17 students for each member of the staff. Up to the appointment of Dr. W. F. M. Goss to the deanship of the College of Engineering in 1907, a large part of the
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