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The Engineering Schools versit.v in honor chanic arts as v, liresent Schools of Engineering. the Engineering department recei administration of President Smart [JGIXG from the present standing of the Engineering Schools in our University circle, it seems hardly pos- sible that engineering is only a by-product of the original organization, and that the original institu- tion of our great Purdue was the Indiana Agricul- tural College. In 1SC9 a change in this college was made possible by donations of John Purdue and others, the new institution being dubbed Purdue Uni- ts benefactor, and including in its curriculum the me- is agriculture. From the Mechanic Arts grew our Along with the rest of the University, ived its first great impulse under the Mechanical Mechanical Engineering at Purdue attempts to give. first a solid theoretical foundation and then as much jiractical application as time will admit. This year marks the initiation of a new subject, The Theory of Gas Engine Design and Operation : and tlie fact that Professor Ludy has charge of the course insures its suc- cess. This move, however, left the Mechanics department without a head; so Professor Dukes was imported from Case School of Applied Science, and placed in charge of the department. At present the Mechanical Laboratory is crowded beyond its capacity. In some cases the engines are so close together that the students are handicapped considerably when trying to test them. Next year this will all be eliminated, by extending the Engineering Laboratory into the space at present occupied by the Practical Mechanics department. Each year engines have been added, until now there is not a single foot left which does not support a steam engine, steam turbine, gas engine, air com- pressor, pump, condenser or some other piece of apparatus. The latest addition is the engines from a compound Baldwin locomotive. Their power is absorbed by two of the largest prony brakes in existence. „. • I The Electrical Engineering School secured a new lab- oratory first, and now has plenty of room for generators, motors, switchboards and other apparatus. One of the conspicuous adorn- ments is the large interurban car which occupies the east end of the lab- oratory. Many spare moments are spent on the overhead traveling crane, which is made to go through all sorts of maneuvers, in transporting chairs and small boxes about the laboratory. The practical Telephone depart- ment still holds out in the thin atmosphere of the upper regions. A visitor is impressed most by the size of the laboratories and hum of the machines; but any Senior Electrical could tell of more weary hours spent in poring over abstract theories, than spent in operating electrical machinery. Civil The Civil School is. in many ways, not the least of the three. They originated the idea that in union there is strength; and at almost any class meeting that idea may be seen cropping out. the beauty of the scheme being that it works. By this time the Civils have become well settled in their compara- tively new building, and are progressing so rapidly along all lines that they are on equal terms with any like school in the country. They have as good a corps of instructors as any other of the schools in the Univer- sity. A very popular branch of the subject, which has developed recently, is Sanitary Engineering. The graduated students are making good, and there is a demand for more of them. Chemical Purdue offered in the school ye indergraduate stu cal Engineering. ; first course in Chemical Engineering of 190G-1907. Those who complete the receive the degree of Bachelor of Sci-
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Although this department has never been organized formally into so-called School, as have the departments of Mechanical, Electrical an Civil Engineering, yet it is recognized as being on practically the sani basis. At present Prof. P. N. Evans, of the Chemistry department, is i charge of the work in Chemical Engineering. The course is designed to prepare men for those commercial Industrie wliich involve chemical operations on a large scale; and therefore not onl the principles of Chemistry are emphasized, but also those of Mechanics and Electrical Engineering. During the first two years the students r ceive about the same work as those in the Mechanical and Electrical d partnients. In the Junior and Senior years the course includes the fund; mental work of the other engineering departments. Graduates may expect to begin work in the Chemical Laboratorie but later to enter the works as chemical engineers; this experience is tl: best preparation for subsequent connection with the management. RLES HE. RY BENJAMl TBI Dean of the Schools of Engineering and Dirertcr of the Engineering Laboratories. M.E. University of Maine. 1S81; Doctor of Engineering. Case School of Applied Sci- ence, 1908; Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Member Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; Honorary Member Engineering Society of Cleveland. BENJAMIN
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