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Students are allowed, in their senior year, to begin to specialize
somewhat, taking, for example, work in steam, in marine, in railway,
or in electrical engineering, with specialists.
2. Department of Experimental Engineering, or Mechanical
Laboratory
Instruction. The work in this department comprises
a systematic course of instruction intended not only to give the
student skill in the use of apparatus of exact measurement, but to
teach him also the best methods of research. Its courses of instruc
tion include the theory and use of machines for testing the strength
and determining other valuable properties,
of the materials of con
struction, of lubricants, and of fuels, etc., the processes of belt-testing,
and of power measurement, and the standard system of gas and steam-
engine and of steam-boiler test-trials. All students take part in this
work and, when sufficiently expert, in commercial work of this kind
at the University, and sometimes extensively
throughout the state and elsewhere.
in the large cities
3. Department of Electrical Engineering. The student at the
end of the third year of the course in Mechanical Engineering, may,
if he chooses, substitute the special work in electrical engineering for
the prescribed work of the regular course. The special work of the
fourth year comprises the study, under the direction of the Professor
of Electrical Engineering, of station design and construction of the
prime movers, the design and construction of electrical machinery,
the study of the problems involved in the distribution of the electric
light and the electrical transmission of power, besides practice in
every variety of measurement, computation and testing, as applied to
the construction and maintenance of electric lighting and power
plants and telephone and telegraph lines and cables, and to the pur
poses of investigation ; while a large amount of work in the labora
tories of the Department of Physics is given with special reference to
the needs of the practical electrician.
Graduates in the course of Electrical Engineering, are given the de
gree of Mechanical Enginer, as in the regular course, with a state
ment in the diploma that the student has elected the special work
offered in this department.
Electricians unfamiliar with engineering may pursue special work.
Students entering the undergraduate courses for the purposes of the
electrician, rather than those of the electrical engineer, should take
the course leading to the degree of A.B., and should take its electives
in physics. No student deficient in talent for either mathematics,
physics, or the mechanic arts should attempt electrical engineering.
4. Department of Mechanic Arts. The aim of the instruction in