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and, later, of working machines. The use of drawing instruments is
next taught, and after the student has acquired some knowledge of
descriptive geometry and the allied branches, the methods of work in
the drawing rooms of workshops and manufacturing establishments
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are learned. Line drawing, tracing and blue printing, the conven
tional section-lining and colors, geometrical construction, projections
and other important details of the draughtsman's work are practiced
until the student has acquired proficiency.
Industrial Art. Instruction in industrial and fine art, continuing
through four years, is arranged for students a having talent for such
work, and desiring to devote their time mainly to this subject. Mod
eling and landscape drawing and painting occupy the spring term.
No degree is conferred, but certificates of proficiency may be given
at the end of course. Occasional general and public lectures on the
of history art and the work of great artists are given.
6. Department of Machine Design. The advanced instruction in
the Department of Machine Design is developed directly out of the
preceding courses and includes the tracing of curves and cams, the
study of kinematics on the drawing board, tracing the motion of de
tail mechanism, and the kinematic relations of connected parts,
This part of the work is accompanied by lecture-room instruction and
the study of the text-book ; the instructors in the drawing rooms
being assisted by the lecture-room instructor, who is a spcialist in
his branch. The concluding part of the course embraces a similar
method of teaching machine-design, the lecture-room and drawing-
room work being correlated in the same manner as in kinematics or
mechanics. The course concludes, when time allows, by the design
ing of complete machines, as the steam engine or other motor, or
some important special type of machine. Students often make orig
inal designs, and not infrequently put on paper plans relating to their
own inventions.
Besides the preceding undergraduate courses, graduate courses are
arranged for students in mechanical or electrical who engineering de
sire further instruction and advanced work in engineering.
7. The Graduate School of Marine Engineering
and Naval
Architecture, which was established by the Board of Trustees in 1890,
has for its object to provide courses of instruction and opportunities
for research in such special branches of engineering as relate to the
design, building, powering, and propulsion of vessels of and all
any
types. The course is so arranged that students during their senior
year in mechanical will engineering be able to carry on in the School
their special or elective work of that year. For the student entering