Department of Civil Engineering Civil Engineering is a broad field and contains many branches that may be special¬ ized in. The Department of Civil Engineering prepares the graduate of Civil Engi¬ neering course for entrance in all branches, such as the location, construction and maintenance of h i g h w a y s, railroads, streets and pave¬ ments, waterworks systems, sewerage systems, protection levees, irrigation and drain¬ age, canals and ditches, reser¬ voirs, bridges, masonry struc¬ tures, the surveying and map¬ ping of areas, drafting. There are many opportun¬ ities for the graduates of this course in railroad work, struc¬ tural work, public road build¬ ing and in the government re¬ clamation work which is car¬ ried on very extensively. The department keeps in touch with its graduates, and is able to place many students in good positions when they graduate. The Senior class each year visits impor¬ tant engineering works and makes some valuable observations. The department contains two well-equipped drafting rooms, an instrument room, a concrete laboratory, a testing laboratory, a hydraulic laboratory, a well- stocked library, and is supplied with a well-assorted stock of transits, levels, compasses, solar attachments, sextant, plane table, aneroid barometers, calculating instruments, planimeters, rods, chains, tapes, flag poles, pins, etc. The testing laboratory contains two power-operated general testing machines —a 500,000-pound three-screw Riehle machine, and the other a 50,000-pound Olsen machine; one 20,000-pound hand-operated machine, one Olsen torsion ma- 27
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