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SIBLEY COLLEGE. 295
found none too much, and the courses are therefore organized to meet
the demands, solely, of engineering as a profession. Education and
culture should precede it ; notwithstanding
the fact that technical
studies must always constitute a very effective line of education of
the faculties and of the mind.
The Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanic
Arts receives its name from the late Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, who
between the years of 1870 and 1887, gave one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars toward its equipment and endowment. Mr. Hiram
W. Sibley has added above fifty thousand dollars for later construc
tions. It now includes eight departments : Mechanical Engineering,
Experimental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Machine Design,
Mechanic Arts or shop work, Industrial Drawing and Art, Grad
uate Schools of Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture and of
Railway Mechanical Engineering.
Departments.
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work of this
department is conducted in connection with the several other depart
ments to be presently described. The full course of instruction con
sists of the study, by text-book, or lectures, of the materials used in
mechanical engineering ; the valuable qualities of these materials
being exhibited in the mechanical laboratory by the use of the various
kinds of testing machines. The of theory strength of materials is here
applied, and the effects of modifying conditions such as variation of
temperature, frequency and period of strain, method of application of
stress are illustrated. This course of study is accompanied by in
struction in the science of pure mechanical kinematics, which traces
motions of connected parts, without reference to the causes of such
motion, or to the work done, or the energy transmitted. The study
is conducted largely in rooms where drawing the successive positions
of moving parts can be laid down on paper. It is illustrated in some
directions by
the set of kinematic models known as the Reuleaux
models, a complete collection of which is found in the museum of
Sibley College.
The of machine study design succeeds that of pure mechanism, just
described, and is also largely conducted in the drawing rooms.
The closing work of the course consists of the study, by text-book
and lectures, of the theory of complete machines, as the steam-engine
and other motors. The last term of the regular four-year course is
devoted largely to the preparation of a graduating thesis in which the
student is expected to exhibit something of the working power and
the knowledge gained during his course.