Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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• Where trigonometry and calculus bou in defeat before the omlaughli of the embryo engineer. • Cooperation with industry in giving the student actual experience as well as classroom theory is the principle of education put into practice by the Marquette University College of Engineering. According to the modified cooperative system on which the College is organized, the first two years are purely academic, while during his last three years the embryo engineer gives one half of his time to classroom work and the other half to practical employment in the industrial shops of Milwaukee and vicinity. Here he is paid for his work, which is closely supervised and of which a complete record is kept. By thus placing the student engineer in actual contact with industrial conditions the graduate is better prepared to cope with industrial problems. During the time of the depression, while cooperative work was somewhat more difficult to obtain than in normal times, engineering students were allowed a slight modification of this system. They were given the privilege of studying subjects offered by other schools and colleges in the University for which they were eligible. These courses were taken up during that time in which the cooperative student would ordinarily be engaged in acquiring practical shop experience. Twenty-two students made up its enrollment when the College of Engineering was founded in 1908. Now. in its silver anniversary year, the enrollment of this department shows an increase of some eighteen hundred per cent while the • 26 ENGINEERING • Coordination of education courses utth actual industrial experience hat been successfully del eloped at the Man uelle College of Engineering to a degree of perfection attained by few American unit ersitiet. Here the student builds a solid academic foundation during the first years of his college career, and then, as his education progresses, enters the uorld of the graduate engineer. Careful blending of study and experience develop the student completely, eliminating the sudden and entire change of activity that usually bewilders the graduate as be leases behind the theoretical and takes up the practical. Mari uelte holds as a cardinal principle of all technical training, the practical illustration by industrial and engineering example of the various theories suggested and ad tanced in the classroom. College itself has come to be recognized as one of the outstanding engineering schools in the United States. • Last fall the College acted as host to the Engineering College Magazines Associated, a national organization which includes twenty-three publications in its membership. The Marquette Engineer, quarterly publication affiliated with the organization, complied strictly with the rules and again upheld its high standard of workmanship both editorially and mechanically, to be given an A rating in every department. Only two other magazines of the association were awarded this distinction. Since becoming a member, the Marquette Engineer has consistently maintained a class A rating, has been given awards for its articles and has been displayed at the annual convention as a model of typography. Richard J. Panlcner, editor of the Engineer, was THE HILLTOP O F N I

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• Tb Rtr. Wilium f. CfMf, $. •• M.A.. bai ltd tb College of Uberal Am along the pathway of progren jkJ Jetelopmtnl fot lb pjtt lix jean—a pathway in u-bieb flexibility it an tm-porianl {bar adenine in lb Mr I hod of nothing. elective course in religion, for non-Catholics interested in the Catholic faith, was introduced last fall. The study explains the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith. Special students desiring to complete a more comprehensive course in Liberal Arts before entering their professional schools may take advantage of a combined curricula, and after spending three years in the Arts College and upon the completion of one year's specialized study may receive their bachelor's degree. Saturday morning and late afternoon classes, taught for the benefit of teachers and students who must work during the day, cover practically every field of regular instruction. Over twenty per cent of the total registration in Liberal Arts is made up of part-time students. • Clubs and academic organizations arc more numerous in Liberal Arts than in any other department of the University, principally because of the diversification of instruction. A unifying clement for the entire College is achieved in the Liberal Arts Association, an organization to which every student belongs. Part of all tuition fees is turned over to the society, which is thereby enabled to supervise the extra-curricular activity of the students. The Association annually awards a merit key to one member of each class who had the highest average in his work during the preceding semester, and to the senior whose average in the four-year curriculum was the highest. Students interested in philosophy may join the Aristotelian Society. For the scientifically minded are the Physics Club, the Zoological Society. the Botanical Society and the Chemical Society, while languages arc given extra-curricular importance through the Goethe-Verein, L'Academic Francaisc, and the Classical Club. Other Arts school organizations include the Literary Society, the John D. Logan Poetry Society, the Mathematics Club, the Historical Society and the International Relations Club. Liberal Arts students arc eligible to compete in the Intercollegiate Latin contest of the Missouri province of the Society of Jesus. A gold medal is offered for the best translation of classical Latin and classical English, and a cash prize is annually given by the president of the University for the best paper submitted by a Marquette student. The William E. Cramer prize of fifty dollars for excellence in English essay writing is also open to students of the college. Several changes in the faculty were made last fall. The departments of botany and zoology were united to form one department of Biology, with Dr. William N. Stcil as head. The Rev. Raphael N. Hamilton, S.J., was named to succeed the Rev. Francis S. Betten, S.J., as head of the department of history, and the Rev. Thomas Reilly, S.J., became head of the department of social sciences. Class presidents for the year were: senior, Francis McCarthy; junior, Robert McCormack; sophomore, John Petcrsik, and freshman, William Coffey, jr. • 25 E T E E N THIRTY FOUR

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• Engineering emphaiizei the nee-essilj for prattled i bof ex per it air. • The Ret. Joseph F. Carroll, S.J . Ph.D., is repent of the College of Engineering. • Franz A. Karuh. B.S. in E£„ Jean of the College of Engineering, uai this year electeJ j FtUou of the Amenean Inslilnte of Eleelried Engineers. acting chairman of the 1933 convention. Franz A. Kar-tak, a member of the engineering faculty since 1921 and dean of the College since 1928, was this year elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Of seventeen thousand members of the Institute, foundation society of the electrical engineering profession, only four per cent at present hold the distinction of Fellowship. The Rev. Joseph Car-roll, S.J., is regent of the College. The Catholic Mission Service, which is affiliated with the College, gives aid to the Missions by offering designs for buildings and recommending types of construction to missionary societies. John Kirkish is president and Horace A. Frommelt, professor of mechanical engineering. is supervisor. A new course in applied X-ray analysis, taught by John N. Mrgudich, Ph.D., has been introduced into the curriculum. For this course, two new pieces of equipment were acquired. One, a mechanical laboratory fuel research engine. is used in research work in an effort to determine the property of fuels for internal com- bustion engines, while the second, a complete X-ray spectograph outfit, is for the purpose of determining the molecular constitution of liquids and solids. The College offers degrees in Giemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Students enrolled in the latter course. Mechanical Engineering, may take up Aeronautical Engineering if they so desire. • The installation of the Wisconsin Beta chapter of Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering fraternity established in 1883, was achieved last year. The organization of a chapter of this fraternity at Marquette has been the aim of Sigma Nu Sigma, local honorary fraternity, since its foundation in 1927. In addition to Tau Beta Pi, the College has two professional fraternities. Gamma Theta Pi. local, and Sigma Phi Delta, national. Marquette has branches of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, of the American Societies of Mechanical and Civil Engineers, and of the American Chemical Society. The official organization of the College is the Marquette Engineering Association. Juniors in the College of Engineering are eligible for election to the local honorary society, the Knights of St. Patrick. Scholastic attainments and participation in extra-curricular activities are the basis on which members arc chosen. Class presidents for the year were: senior, Donald Olson; junior, Joseph Krueger; prejunior, Robert Peeples; sophomore, Robert Brauer; freshman, Donald Peters. 27 E T E E N THIRTY F OUR ■