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

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■ F. C. Bolton, B.S. Professor of Electrical Engineering. Mississippi A. and M. College, B.S.; Graduate Work, University of Chicago; University of Wisconsin; Cornell Uni¬ versity ; Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Mississippi A. and M. College, ’05-06; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, A. and M. College of Texas, ’09; Associate Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers. J. E. Lear. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, ’01 ; A. and M. College of Texas, E.E., ’09; Special Work, Cornell University, ’01- ’02; Testing Department General Elec¬ tric Co., ’03-04; Technical Assistant in Charge of the Special Test Department General Electric Co., ’03-04; Assistant Designing Engineer on Direct Current Motors and Generators, General Elec¬ tric Co., ’04-05; Instructor in Depart¬ ment of Physics and Electrical Engineer¬ ing, A. and M. College of Texas, ’05-09; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engin¬ eering, ’09; Associate Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 22

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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

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Department of English. The aim of this department is to give such training as will enable students to use their mother tongue readily and ac¬ curately. The instruction, therefore, is practical rather than theoretical. Writ¬ ten exercises are required, and these are not only carefully read by the instructor, but are also discussed in personal con¬ ference with the individual student. In this way each student has his attention called to his most frequent errors, and suggestions especially adapted to his needs are made. A course in this department that is exceedingly helpful to the future engin¬ eers is the course in Public Speaking, which was established this year. The student here learns the art of making public addresses. Another course that is of benefit to the student is the course in Modern Lan¬ guages. A practical knowledge of Ger¬ man, French, or Spanish is imparted to the student, so that he will be aided in the prosecution of a scientific career. In the advanced work the reading is grad- n y adapted to the scientific work of other departments.