Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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Department of Civil Engineering. After wandering from one set of cramped quarters to another for a score of years, the Civil Engineering Depait- ment was last year provided with a spa¬ cious fireproof building, which it shares with the Architectural Engineering and Physics Departments for the present. During this session, there has been scarcely an hour during the working hours of the week when a single section room has remained unoccupied. Last year one well - equipped drafting - room sufficed for the students in structural and bridge engineering, but this year two such rooms have their capacities taxed by the classes in this subject. The engineering equipment of the de¬ partment consists of such instruments as surveyor’s transits, Gurley and .Saegmiil- v ler solar attachment, Davis solar screen, city transits, plain transits, pocket tran¬ sits, wye levels, dumpy levels, terracing level, hand level, solar compasses, needle compasses, sextant, plane table, aneroid barometers, odometer, pedometer, polar and rolling planimeters, pantographs, drafting machines, calculating machines and slide rules of various kinds, chains, tapes, rod poles, pins, etc. The Testing Laboratory contains two Rhiele and one Fairbanks cement test¬ ing machine, one 50,000-inch-pound Ol¬ sen torsion testing machine, one 50,000- pound Olsen universal testing machine, one 100,000-pound Rhiele automatic and autographic testing machine, one abra¬ sion cylinder for testing paving bricks, etc. All of the above are driven by a three-phase 5-k.w. motor from a line shaft belt connected to machine. The Hydraulic Laboratory is fully equipped with such apparatus as Boyden hook gauges, pressure gauges, Pelton and Doble water motors, measuring tanks, weirs, etc. 19

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J. C. Blake, B.S., Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. University of Colorado, B.S., ’oi; Fel¬ low, Yale University, ’02-03 1 Yale Uni¬ versity, Ph.D., ’03; Research Associa¬ tion Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ’03-05; Assist¬ ant Physicist. National Bureau of Stand¬ ards, ’06; Professor of Chemistry, A. and M. College of Texas, ’06-09; Pro¬ fessor of Chemistry and Chemical En¬ gineering, ’09. G. S. Fraps, B.S., Ph.D. State Chemist, Chemist to Experiment Station. North Carolina A. and M. College, B.S., ’06; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D., ’99; Associate Professor of Chemistry, A. and M. College of North Carolina, ’95-96; Associate Professor of Chemistry, A. and M. College of Texas, and ' State Chemist of Texas, ’06. F. H. MacDougall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., B.A., ’02; M.A., ’03; University of Leip¬ zig, Germany, Ph.D., ’07. W. P. Nelson. Assistant in Chemistry. Missouri State University; Chemist American Steel Foundries, ’05-06; Head Chemist St. Louis Steel Foundry, ’07-08; Assistant in Chemistry A. and M. Col¬ lege of Texas, ’09.

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D. W. Spence, B.S., C.E. Professor of Structural Engineering. University of Texas, B.S., ’8g; Uni¬ versity of Michigan, C.E., ’91 ; Chief Draftsman, South Halsted Street Iron Works, Chicago, ’91-92; Associate Pro¬ fessor of Civil Engineering and Physics and Drawing, A. and M. College of Tex¬ as, ’92-99; Professor of Physics, ’99-03; Associate Professor of Civil Engineer, ’03-08; Professor of Structural Engin¬ eering, ’08. J. C. Nagee, B.S., M.A., C.E., M.C.E, Professor of Civil Engineering. University of Texas, B.S., ’89; M.A., ’92; Western University of Pennsyl¬ vania, C.E., ’92; Cornell University, M.C.E., ’93; Topographer for the Geo¬ logical Survey of Texas, ’89-90; Drafts¬ man Pittsburg Bridge Company, sum¬ mer of ’92; Chief Engineer Brazos and Burleson R. R. Co., summer of ’94; As¬ sistant Chief Engineer, H. E. W. T. R. R., Co., July, ’99, to January, 1900; Agent and Expert in Irrigation Investi¬ gations, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, ’99 to 1902; Consulting Engineer; Member American Society of Civil Engineers; Member Society for Promotion of En¬ gineering Education; Fellow, A. A. A. I.; Past President Texas Academy of Science; Engineer Burleson County Im¬ provement District No. 1, 1908 to date; Professor of Civil Engineering. A. and M. College of Texas, since ’90. Rorert J. Potts, A.B., B.S., C.E. Associate Professor of Highway Engineering. Straum College, A.B., ’96; A. and M. College of Texas, B.S., ’06; C.E., ’07; Instructor in Mathematics, A. and M. College of Texas, ' 07-09; Assistant Pro¬ fessor of Civil Engineering, ’09-10; As¬ sociate Professor of Highway Engineer¬ ing, To. 20