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Department of Civil Engineering F.O.Marvin and E C. Murphy.
The course in Civil Engineering was the first of the special courses to be established. The work has grown in importance and expanded in scope, keeping pace with the continual improvement going on in the University as a whole. Its aim is not that of a purely industrial school, nor does it seek to turn out tradesmen but rather to develop a sound basis on which the student may build, by a thorough study of the principles of science which underlie engineering operations. While engineering is founded on exact science, it is by no means exact itself, but consists of a constantly varying application of principles to practical problems; and this can be successfully done only through the exercise of good judgment on the part of those who are to furnish the salutions. Good judgment comes in most cases through close observation and personal experience in actual work, but to be right, it must be formed on a knowledge of good theory. The University then cannot send out skilled engineers, but she can and does graduate those who may become such, and who have a profession—not a trade.
Within the last twenty-five years the field of engineering has widened rapidly, so that now there is no other profession that demands so broad a scientific culture as that of the engineer. In recent modifications of the course of study, an effort has been made to meet the demand, resulting from this expansion, so far as it could be done consistently, taking into account the student's time and the thoroughness of his work. None but a phenomenal student could compass in four years the whole range of subjects which may come up in his practice.
The course as it now stands carries the pure mathematics through the calculus; it includes botany, chemistry. a year of physics, descriptive and practical astronomy, mineralogy, geology and enough of French and German to enable the student to read fairly at sight; in draughting considerable skill is given by practical problems, while the theory of drawing is studied in descriptive geometry, shades and shadows, and perspective; under surveying comes the subject of government land surveys, trigonometric surveys, geodesy, railroad work, levelling and topography; analytical mechanics, hydromechanics and resistance of materials form the basis for studies in construction, such as roofs, bridges, retaining walls, foundations, reservoirs, etc.; while municipal engineering is treated under the heads of
streets and pavements, water supply and sewerage; the forms of specifications and the laws governing contracts are also discussed.
Considerable practical work is done at various points in the course. Classes have run railroad lines, surveyed land, measured base lines, established city grades, planned sewerage systems, measured the flow of the Kansas river, etc., and students have acquired sufficient familiarity with instruments and field methods to enable them immediately to fill subordinate positions with credit.
The department is fairly well provided with apparatus, having engineer's transits, levels, compasses, barometers, &c., from various makers; a high grade level of precision; a large triangulation instrument similar to those used in measuring large triangles by the United States Coast Survey, made by Fauth & Co., of Washington, D. C.; a transit for secondary triangulation; a price current meter; an Olsen cement tester; as well as various minor appliances to illustrate sandy operations in the field work of an engineer.
That the course proves a good foundation and preparation for the practicing engineer is evinced by the success of those who have followed it, our graduates being scattered all over the west in responsible positions.
E. WRIGHT,
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