Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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V O 1- J- f .L ' . » ' y-- ' ■ ' ■ Vti APPLIED CIENCE The Applied Science Division was established in the fall of igii as a result of the feeling among the faculty that an opportunity ought to be pro- vided for training m the fundamental sciences without necessarily having to study the special applications of these sciences as given in Agri- culture, Engineering, Home Economics and Veterinary courses, the only ones offered at this college up to that time. The first Dean of the Applied Science course was Dr. F. S. Kedzie, who had just resigned the presidency which he held for five years, and who had for many years before that been connected with the De- partment of Chemistry. In this course, a student IS able to get a thorough training m some of the more important sciences, while at the same time having opportunity to devote considerable time to various other lines of study, not necessarily scientific but cultural. It is in this course that the students preparing themselves for dentistry and medical training find it most convenient to get their preliminary training. m » ii

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ENGINEERING The demand of the profession of engineering today IS two-fold. On the one hand is the de- mand that the engineering student shall be trained intensively in engineering science re- search. On the other hand there is the demand from industry that the engineering student shall he given a training in the art of engineering, and also such a broad training that he may enter the field of management and administration. With the time available it is impossible to give the student intensive training that will best fit him to perform the duties of the profes- sional engineer, and at the s;mie time give him the broader training that will make him im- mediately more valuable to industry. The divi- sion of engineering has recognized this difficulty and differentiates between the technical and the administrative engineer, offering, as it does in each of the four branches. Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, the op- tion of following either the technical course or the Engineering Administration course. m i I I ACTING DEAN 23

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HOME ECONOMIC The scope of the field of Home Economics is increasingly far reaching and, therefore, pro- fessional opportunities for women with this training are becoming more varied. This neces- sitates thorough preparation in the fundamental sciences, English, economics and sociology as well as in the various departments of this divi- sion. However, the purpose of the division is not primarily to (it the students for professions, but rather to prepare them for living and to enable them to apply modern resources to the improvement of the home. 1 N E ' ' ' ' ' 1 t 4 III |wi.iTiii|iii . 25