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

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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

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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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The course in Electrical Engineering is designed to give the student a working knowledge of general electric engineer¬ ing, and to fit him for professional work in the various branches of applied elec¬ tricity. The first two years of the course are devoted to general cultural and scien¬ tific subjects, which lay the foundation for the technical courses to follow. It includes such subjects as Physics, Mat he¬ matics, and shop work. The Electrical Engineering proper is taken up in the Junior and Senior years. In these two years the student completes the study of Electrical Engineering as applied to both direct and alternating currents, learns the principles of electric machine design, studies the telegraph and tele¬ phone systems, and gets a general con¬ ception of the engineering and economic features of electric railway work and of power transmission. The laboratory courses are strong and students operate and test various types of commercial machines, the theory of which they have already been taught in the class-room. The equipment of the department is modern and up-to-date in every respect. The Electrical Measurement Laboratory contains a large number of very fine in¬ struments, both of American and foreign make. Among these are all the neces¬ sary standards for measuring capacity, inductance, resistance, electromotive- force and current. The Dynamo Labora¬ tory is equipped with direct and alternat¬ ing current generators and motors, trans¬ formers, storage batteries, rheostats, re¬ sistances, one complete Otis elevator equipment, mercury arc converters, ro¬ tary converters, a complete equipment of meters, both alternating and direct current, stop watches, and tachometers, etc. Among the other equipment of the department is a station photometer, an illumination photometer, dark rooms, a modern lighting exhibit containing car¬ bon incandescent. Tungsten, Nernst, al¬ ternating. and direct current enclosed arcs, and several types of flaming arc lamps, an automatic telephone exchange, telephone equipments, and a complete workshop equipped with motor-driven lathe, motor-driven drill nress, metal shears, and complete sets of tools. 21