Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Seuled ..I. n. I M,n 1 1 ( Mini, ( I u, 1 I ,lll M. M rt;:in, .Ir, ' i.I ik-I SmuuicI V. I )..l,yii Standing M.ijui DjmiI M I iiii. Mi|,.iJ 1 rank Ilarlis, LiuuUMuiiit Martiii C. Fislirr, Captnin Jamison, Lieutenant William A. Vaughan, Mr. Benjamin S. Clark. Not in Picture: Colonel James A. McDonough, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel S. tliUe.spie. nsiiii, Captain Donald K. This curi ' iculuiir.s record of .suc-ccssi ' ul i;r;icluatc.s speak.s well for Ihc difficult but tlioroufili iirogrMin wliicii cadct.s imi. ' l coin|)lctc in order to leave V. M. I. willi degrees in civil eiigiiieeriiig. : V. ( ' . Syi)N(ju Kenny Patrick, the President t the V.M.I. Chapter of tlie Amen,;,,, Sn,„-I, of Ciril Engineers, poses with General Anderson in the halls of Xickols Engineering building after a meeting of the Society.

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r-» •■ mm » ; f ««W 5 B ■ M jC ' Ty Ij! jPN H ' (fi fc - C ; WK- ' . . , f ii 1 l» g Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton testing machine, a B L plioto- grammetric plotter, nnciear counting eciuipment, and a modern concrete mixer. More stuilenis are enrolled in civil engineering thaTi in any other eurrienluni at . M. I., with the enrollment re- maining steady. Within the past five years, eighty-seven V. ] I. I. civil graduales have entered or graduated from forty-two different graduate schools. At the present time, two of the fifteen members of the staff are enrolled in graduate schools, both as candidates for ' the doctorate degree. The V. M. I. stu lent elia])ter of the American Society of Civil Engineers has received the Certificate of Commen- dation of the American Society of Civil Engineers twenty- three times. Colonel Mohg. n Head, Department of Civil Engincerinij DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING THE civil engineering eurriculnm, which is a])i)r(]ved by the Engineer ' s Council for Professional Development, provides a background of basic sciences, api)lied engineer- ing subjects, and a number of well distributed cultural subjects. Efforts are made to develop and stress those ciualities essential for molding the graduate of this curri- culum into a good citizen as well as a successful engineer. Concentration on fundamentals enables the graduate to enter the business world directly or continue his education in graduate school. The recent facility expansion program includes the accjuisition of new concrete and sanitary engineering laboratories, located in the Engineering Annex. The lab- oratories of the Department are well ecjuipped with modern apparatus. Xew additions include a 200,000 lb. ,,i„-l Mcl)..ri(iiii;h. «lio wms IIk ' inir..rtiiimU- victim ..I this ninl.-r ' ; ice, is shown aboNe lecturing in tlie Soils laboratory to some of tin First Class civil engineers with the assistance of Lt. Fisher.

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CoLONtL JvMISON Head, Department of Electrical Engimcninj The staflF of the Electrical Engineering Department itself is composed of men who, with the exception of instructors, have at least one advanced degree and con- siderable professional experience. Additions are made each year to the basic laboratory equipment of the Department. Rather than purchase costl.y commercial equipment the Department prefers to assemble its own laboratory appara- tus, using the more economical component parts. In this way more useful equipment maj- be bought while, at the same time, experience is gained. Colonel Jamison, head of the Department, feels that the prospective student should have a sincere interest in electrical engineering, and should not allow himself to be drawn into the field for reasons of high salary alone. Thus, due to the stringent ])rograni of training which cadets are subjected to, there are very few distinguished graduates in DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING THE electrical engineering curriculum pniviiles a very broad but basic understanding of the fundamentals of electrical engineering. This curriculum has been revised and, at i resent, the Third Class is following the new pro- gram. While it does not have options in the two major components of electrical engineering, power and electronics, the ciu ' riculum does call for a closer coordination between all courses, with a distribution of work in power and electronics, and the elimination of nnich du])lication. Of the graduating electrical engineers, a large per- centage take graduate courses in connection with their employment, as contrasted with full time graduate work. This graduate work in some cases leads to an advancetl degree while, in other cases, only those courses pertaining t(j the immediate position are pursued. II electric pencil sliarpeiier.