Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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TnFdueJ)ebrl3 ( of the Schools of Engineering and D rector e Engineer ng Laborato ies. M. E Uni- V uf Miiin, ISSl; Dnetu r of Engin erlng, vth of Purdue Univei ' the School of Agrici rise of the country made 11 equipped with that liH ' cirnti;it il tiepartment ;)f engineering consisi ring, comprising about 80 per cent of the total vhich is again differentiated into several lines of of the 1 Each of the courses of engineering is designed to give the student the greatest possible breadth of knowledge and experience both theoretical and practical. We observe therefore that in the first year the courses are essentially alike, embodying a general field of academic work, with only a glimpse of the distinctive line of engineer- ing designated by the course chosen. Each succeeding year acquires more and more an indiWdual distinctness imtil in the Senior year the courses are practically unrelated except in a broad sense as conveyed by the descriptive term engineering. The general equipment of the laboratories has been accumulateil by tlie .xc.ii- tion of a steady and consistent program of acquisition, keeping apace witli llir iialiiiiil expansion of the various schools. Today we may without vanity or IinitNtiti; . say tliat the laboratories of Purdue University are in many respects peerlesj,. Ueaearcii ill (Miy jiliase of engineering that may possibly be desired along chemical, electrical, » i il iiiui mechanical lines may be pursued with convenience, expediency, andcomplete- 11. ss III fact, the equipment is now so elaborate and plentiful, that the bent of effort