Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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Cbc .ifacultv “Experience is an arch wnerethro' Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when 1 move.’’

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labor must be continuous, else he will soon find himself outdistanced in the race. One of our Presidents has said. “The Civil Engineer should be and generally is a man of broadest education, and should be em couraged to enter public service, as his profession ever teaches him the value of strict honesty and the fallacy of dishonesty.” Many fields are open to the engineer, and at the present time and for years to come, there will always be room for all who qualify. Xew fields are ever presenting themselves, and the public demanding specialists in minor branches of the profession. Our best paid men are those who have made a special study of some one line. We find among such the specialist in hydraulics, irrigation, power development, concrete construction, machine construction, electric power transmission, etc. Civil Engineering, the mother of the engineering professions, today, as ever in the past, is the source from which has sprung the children. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. As the years roll by, the grandchildren are being named; we find among such Sanitary, Structural, Road, Railway, Telephone Engineering, etc. The young man who enters the profession, makes no mistake if he early decides to specialize. The path may seem steep and narrow at first, but the future has greatest promise. In selecting the profession, the young man should realize that main-branches are and ever will be tied to corporation control, while others offer an open field. If the young man desires to work for salary all his life, all of the branches offer excellent openings. If, on the other hand, he prizes his independence, he should look over the list of engineers and ascertain in which profession independence is to be found. The young man makes a mistake if he takes one of the engineering courses and attempts to follow, in practical life, the work of some one of the other courses. He ever finds himself upon an unequal footing with his associates. Nothing takes the spirit out of a man quite so quickly as. when attending for instance a meeting of electrical engineers, and when called upon, he finds it necessary to advise that he has been educated as either a civil or mechanical engineer, although at the present time following the electrical profession. Nothing is more destructive to his progress than to switch from the one to the other professions. The professions are advancing too rapidly for any one man to keep pace with any two of the branches of engineering, and if he attempts it he will soon find that he is proficient in neither. The young man who, in college, spends the time to obtain diplomas from two engineering professions, makes no mistake: the study gives him additional strength and more confidence in himself. After graduation he should take one path and follow that, and circumstances will generally point the way. 20

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ENGINEERING George Brown Couper, M. E. Professor of Mechanical Engineer-ing. B. M. E., University of Minnesota, ’93; m. e., m Member Montana Society of Engineers. Ebex Tappan Tannatt, B. S. Professor of Civil Engineering. B. S., Washington State College, ’98. Passed examinations before U. S. Engineers, commissioned by President McKinley Lieutenant of Engineers and served through Spanish-American War. Joseph Auken Thaler, E. E. Professor of Electrical Engineering. E. E., University of Minnesota, 1900. Member Sigma Xi. Associate Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Member Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Member of Montana Engineers' Society. Honorary Member of Engineers’ Society of Montana State College. Secretary Montana State College Branch American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 22