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312 SIBLEY COLLEGE.
School of Railway Mechanical Engineering. [R.]
20c Rolling Stock. The designing, manufacture, service in opera
tenders and cars. Requires M. D.
tion, and repairing of locomotives,
11 and 12. Four lectures. M., T., Th., F., 8. Assistant Professor
HlBBARD.
21. Locomotive Designing. Requires M. D. n,
12. Fall and
winter terms, elective spring. Three hours (nine hours in drafting
room ) , forenoons as may be arranged. Assistant Professor Hibbard.
22. Seminary. Discussion upon previously assigned railway jour
nals. Special papers and reports. Juniors, seniors and graduates.
One hour. W., 8. Assistant Professor Hibbard.
30. Advanced Railway
Mechanical Engineering. Lectures
and directed reading in amplification of course 20, taking up also Shop
Arrangement, Equipment and Methods, Drafting Room Management,
Railway Testing and Test Department, Organization, methods and
records of Motive Power Department, Foreign Railway Engineering,
Compound Locomotives, Freight Car Design. Five hours, as assigned.
Assistant Professor Hibbard.
31. Railway Designing. Advanced work. Three hours,
signed. Assistant Professor Hibbard.
way
x. E. 20 includes locomotive road-testing.
as as
d. 5. Mechani&al Drawing. Those expecting to enter the Rail
School should devote considerable time in this course to loco
motive details. Specials and sophomores. Two hours. Messrs. J. S.
and D. Reid.
N. B. It is particularly recommended and desired that at least one
entire summer vacation, previous to taking any work in this school
be spent in the shops of a railroad or locomotive builder. Arrange
ments are made for this through Assistant Professor Hibbard.
Suggested Electives: M. E. 21, 30, 31. X. E. 21, 30 in railway
equipment and supplies. E. E. 23; 31. M. D. 20, 21, 22. C. E. 10,
x3> 3^. roofs, cranes and turn tables, 39, 42. Political Economy :
Elementary 51, Transportation 62, Wages 55. Law : Contracts, Torts,
Specifications, Patents, Carriers, Corporations. Chemistry 7. Ad
vanced railway quantitative analysis. 270 hours of actual work in the
laboratory, subdivided as follows, will be sufficient : The irons, 50 ;
oils, 30 ; paints and varnishes for wood and for iron, 30 ; boiler feed
water, 30 ; feed water compounds, 30 ; alloys of copper, tin, zinc,
lead, antimony, phosphorus, 50 ; steam pipe coverings, 20 ; waste, 20 ;
sulphur in coal, 10. Also Chemistry, course 10.