UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION 229 courses. Here, too, registration has been disappointing, but much useful work is being done. Part of the work in the mining engineering department, all that of the engineering experiment station, and the highway course are rated as extension activities. Even preceding the Cherry disaster, a mine rescue station had been established and equipped by the Federal Government in connection with the first. The short course in highway engineering, often held at the time of the short courses in agriculture and ceramics, was evoked by the demand among county and township officers for practical information upon the building of roads and bridges. The work of the regular instructors is supplemented by lectures by experts in highway building. As for the experiment station, its activities have been pushed upon the lines first laid down, and have fast broadened. It had little more than a paper existence till in 1905 the Legislature repeated the appropriation of $150,000 made for general engineering purposes two years before. The first grant had been absorbed by the demand for equipment; the second could be devoted largely to research. In imitation of the advisory bodies in agriculture, there were early instituted two conference committees of outside authorities in technical fields: one on tests of Illinois coals, and one on electric traction tests. By 1915 no less than seventy-six bulletins had been published. The faculty of the college of engineering more than doubled during a period in which the registration increased one-third, so that a much richer course of study was made possible. In architecture a single course in architectural engineering grew into a number almost sufficient to justify a separate department. The response of the University to the advance in electrical