Armour Institute of Technology - Cycle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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it fails to return a net profit equal to that of its more modern competitor. In education a piece of laboratory apparatus is never obsolete since it will always illustrate the application of certain fundamental principles. It may lack the efficiency or precision of a more modern device and it may be inadequate for practical purposes but from an educational standpoint it will never cease to be of value so long as it is physically intact. Take for example, the old piston engines io the steam laboratory. They are poor representatives of our latest designs but what more can the student learn in the way of funda- mentals from the latter which cannot be obtained from the former. The ice plant from a practical standpoint is as obsolete as the dodo, but what principle can be shown in the latest installation which is not included in this old patriarch. After all it is not the equipment, but the faculty, which makes the school. The faculty of the mechanical engineering department is a seasoned body of engineers, experienced in teaching, and the individuals arc recognized authorities in their chosen line, and whatever may be the status of the equipment, its limitations arc more than made up by the efficiency of instruction. It is quite probable that an attempt will be made to add a post graduate course for those who care to con- tinue academic work, but all depends upon the demand. It is also possible that the Research Institute and the Technical Institute as advocated by the Armour Plan may take tangible form in the near future, but this i- largely a matter of finance. Meanwhile the Mechanical Department will continue to function along those lines which have been eminently successful for 40 years. Charles Roscoc Swineford M.E. B.S. University of Michigan M.E. Armour Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Machine Design Stanton Edwin Winston M.E. Colorado School of Mines A. B. and A.M. University of Denver B. S. and M.E. Armour Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Kinematics Lynn Eugene Davies M.E. B.S. and M.S. Armour Institute of Tech- nology Associate Professor of Experimental En- gineering Richard Joseph Foster B.S. B.S. University of Nebraska Associate Professor of Descriptive Geom- etry Walter Henry Sccgrist M.E. B.S. Purdue University M.E. Armour Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Machine I esign Phi Kappa Sigma Arthur William Scar M.E. B.S. University of Minnesota M.E. Armour Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Elementary Ma- chine Drawing Pi Tau Sigma, Theta Xi A. W. Sear T utnty-icitn C. R. Swineford S. E. Winston I.. E. Davies R. J. Foster W . H. Sregrist

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George F. Gebbanft Robert Vallette Perry M.E. B.S. and M.E. Armour Institute of Tech. Dean of Evening Classe» and Professor of Machine Design Tau Beta Pi. Pi Tau Sigma, Theta Xi Daniel Roesch M.E. B.S. and M.E. Armour Institute of Tech. Professor of Automotive Engineering Tau Beta Pi. Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Pi Phi James Clinton Peebles M.M.E. B.S. and E.E. Armour Institute of Tech. M.M.E. Cornell University Professor of Experimental Engineering Sigma Xi. Gamma Alpha, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Sphinx, Sigma Kappa Delta Henry Leopold Nachman M.E. B.S. and M.E. Armour Institute of Tech. Professor of Thermodynamics Tau Beta Pi. Rho Delta Rho Edwin Stephen Libby M.E. B.S. and M.E. Armour Institute of Tech. Professor of Refrigeration Engineering Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Kappa Delta Philip Conrad Huntly B.C.E. B.C.E. University of Arkansas Professor of Experimental Engineering Black Knight. Tau Beta Pi. Pi Tau Sig- ma. Chi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Triangle DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING George Frederick Gebhardt, A.B., M.E. A.B. and M.S. Knox College M.E. Cornell University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Department Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Delta Theta What changes have been made since last year in the curriculum of the Mechanical Engineering Department and what new equipment has been added? What changes and additions arc in view for the immediate future? These and similar questions have been asked from time to time. The answer is, None! No changes have been made in the curriculum because it is in conformity with that of the leading engineering schools of this country and because it has given the kind of training best suited to the needs of student and employer. No material change is contemplated at present, though it is quite probable that some adjustments may have to be made from time to time to meet with the demands of indus- try. It must not be inferred from this statement that there is no room for improvement—there is, and plenty of it—but more in increasing efficiency of instruction than in change of subjects. Armour is an engineering school, not a school of science, and as such its main ob- jective is to train the student for the engineering pro- fession. As for equipment, suffice to state that the pres- ent apparatus is wholly adequate for the purpose at hand. To be sure, modern up-to-the-minute devices are desirable for the purpose of showing the latest develop- ment of the art, but they arc not essential to a thorough grounding in fundamentals. In industry a piece of ma- chinery is not obsolete, whatever may be its age, until R. V. Perry T urnfy-iix D. Roesch J. C. Peebles H. L. Nachman E. S. Libby P. C. Huntly

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Melville B. Wells John Cornelius Penn C.E. B.S. and C.E. Armour Institute of Tech- nology Dean of Engineering, and Professor of Civil Engineering Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Theta Xi Roe Loomis Stevens B.S. B.S. Armour Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Bridge and Struc- tural Engineering Honorary Member of Chi Epsilon Henry Townley Heald M.S. B.S. Washington State College M.S. University of Illinois Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, and Assistant to the Dean Black Knight. Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon. Sigma Tau. Phi Kappa Phi. Sigma Kappa Delta Herbert Ensz C.E. B.S. and C.E. University of Colorado Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Chi Epsilon DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Melville Baker Wells, B.C.E., C.E. B.C.E. and C.E. Purdue University Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department Tau Beta Pi, Honorary Member of Chi Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta A new development in the Department of Civil Engi- neering is the post-graduate course, for which six men are now registered. The subjects include advanced work in strength of materials, statically indeterminate struc- tures, water supply engineering, sanitary engineering, and foundations, with special consideration to soil me- chanics. The students who complete the required work satisfactorily will receive Masters’ degrees. Members of the faculty who are teaching these sub- jects find in them opportunities for their own develop- ment greater than arc found in the under-graduate courses, and in thus serving themselves, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping our graduates. The Department is now completing the construction of a water treatment and Alteration plant, with a ca- pacity of twenty-five gallons per minute, for educa- tional and research purposes. The advantages of treated water for commercial and industrial as well as domestic uses is now universally appreciated, and Armour In- stitute of Technology is, perhaps, the first educational institution offering the student of the water supply the advantages of an actual operating plant. The installa- J. C. Penn R. L. Sievent H. T. Hcjld H. En»z T went y-tight