Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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©obbbgb or Engineering Of the four colleges which make up Montana State College. the most popular is the College of Engineering. The enrollment in this College is larger than that of any other and it has the largest number of graduates. The College of Engineering at Montana State was founded in 1S9:{. The legislature at this time decided to accept the grants of laud provided for state schools by the Morrell Act of the Congress of 1S90. This act. ltesides providing for appropriations for the support of the school, also stipulated that collegiate Deax Cobleigh

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Agricultural Experiment Station In an attempt to make agriculture more profitable to tho.se engaged in it and to encoinage ir. the Congress of the United States has provided by special acts for the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station which is associated with Montana State College. Funds for development and research in agriculture throughout the state ate supplied by both the federal and state governments. In 1025 Congress passed the I'urnell Act which provided for the Agricultural Experiment Station. The work covered by this department is limited ro the departments of Agronomy. Home Economics and Rural Life. Agricultural Economics. Veterinary, Botany and Bacteriology, Entomology. Chemistry. Agricultural Engineering. Horticulture. Poultry and Animal Husbandry. The Experiment Station has a farm of J2u acres of improved land adjoining the college campus, and also the Fort Ellis farm of 00 acres of noil-irrigated land about four miles from Bozeman. Laboratories and modern equipment are also provided for the workers of the various departments, and farm buildings of modern design, which are part of the Experiment Station, are arranged to facilitate experiments with livestock. Because of the great differences in climatic conditions of agricultural sections of Montana, five subsidiary experiment stations have been established. At the present time these stations are at Judith Basin. 11 uni ley. Havre, Miles City and Corvallis. The stations afford a more complete study of the state's agricultural possibilities and particularly of crops adapted to certain sections of the state. Results of the research and observations made by this Experiment Station are published and given to persons throughout the state who ask for information. The Agricultural Extension Service also puts into practice many of the findings of the Experiment Station. One of the principal divisions of the State College is the co-operative Extension Station. Extension work in agriculture and home economics is done under the direction of the head of the department, who at the present time is J. C. Taylor. Fred Reunion is head of the county agents, and these two men direct the detailed activities of the service. On May $, 1014. by the passing of the Smith-Lever Act by Congress, the Co-operative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics had iis official beginning. The service is intended to give instruction and practical demonstration in agriculture and home economics to all persons of the state who desire it. This is accomplished by field demonstrations and publications. Being of a purely educational nature, the extension employees, whether county agents, home demonstration agents, boys and girls' club agents, or other co-operative extension workers, are public teachers. They are paid by money raised by taxation and it is their duty to render to the people any service of the extension department that they may require. Their work covers the entire rural field of economic production, economic marketing, and the development of better home, community and social conditions. During the past few years, the Extension Service in Montana has achieved a very marked degree of success. At the present time projects in the fields of agronomy, botany, boys’ and girls' club work, county agent work, extension schools, dairy, farm economics, horticulture, home economics, irrigation, livestock. marketing, poultry, and plant and animal protection are being developed.

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education in military tactics, agriculture and mechanic arts should lu given for the young men and women of the state. The College of Engineering consists of eight different departments. Four year courses are offered in architecture, chemical engineering and industrial engineering, engineering physics, irrigation engineering, civil engineering and mechanical engineering. The courses of study follow the accepted standard of all the engineering schools throughout the I'nite 1 States. Studies that will fit the engineer for special or technical work are emphasized. Work in the class room is supplemented hy practical experience in the shops and drawing rooms. The College of Engineering at Montana State ranks among the best of engineering schools and its graduates have usually been successful. The College of Engineering has an exceptional faculty. The professors at the head of the departments are: Chemistry. William M. Cobleigh: civil engineering. Leon D. Conkling: physics. Frank W. Ham: mechanical engineering. Eric Therkelsen; architecture. William H. Flew, and agricultural engineering. Harvey E. Murdock. Frof. W. M. Cobleigh this year succeeds Earl 11. Norris as Dean of Engineering. The training that graduates of the College of Engineering receive is very thorough and practical. This fact is shown by the success that its graduates have achieved. W. T. Haines, who received his F . S. in electrical engineering in 11H 1. is one of the leading research workers in the laboratories of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in New York City. Yerle McCoy, who received his degree in mechanical engineering in 1925. is now doing mechanical work for the Milwaukee railroad. II. J. Ellingson. an electrical engineer who graduated with the class of 192:1. is now supervising construction of electrical work in Antonion. Jamaica. A RCHITECTl’RK