Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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THE ENGINEERING SCHOOLS Purdue University through its engineering schools and departments has been contributing to the State and to the Nation in the following ways: I. JJ ll Tiflllilliillg Center for Engineerf. Over 2,2oo students were enrolled in 1927-28 in the Purdue engineering schools. These students are being prepared for effective citizenship as well as for successful practice as engineers. livery effort is being made to graduate from the Purdue Engineering Schools engineers who are resourceful and capable, who have the courage to do right, ability to think straight, willingness to work hard, personality to make them acceptable to others. and breadth of vision to utilize the new forces which science and engineering are constantly creating for the common good. 2. Jr an -Jgrury for Crfatfizg Nm' Ellg1.llEEI'l.llg Dieu .X. .X. Ponca lxzzofvffdgr. About one hundred research engineers are devoting all of their time in the Purdue Engineering Iixperiment Station to investigations of value to the railroads, industries, mines, quarries, utilities and public works. 3. .Jr I1 Medium for the DZi.f,ft'llZZi?ldfli0ll of E11g1'1z4'f1'z'11g Irzfornlatioiz. Through conferences. special classes, lectures and publications .the Purdue Engineering Extension Department is supplying technical instruction every year to thousands of people who are engaged in road building, in the electrical utilities, in the railroads, in the quarries, in the mines, in the industries and in the public works of Indiana. VIYIL ENGINEERING Modern civil engineering embraces those tech- nieal services which support life in civilized com- munities where transportation, housing. and sanitation are necessary to the existence of these communities. The civil engineer must design and build bridges across rivers, pier structures in harbors, lines of rail- ways and highways, and dams for the development of water power. Not only does he create these instrumen- talities of community and national life, but as an ex- ecutive and operator he deals with the public directly. The curriculum in civil engineering is based upon science. technology, economics, and the humanities. There are seventeen hundred alumni of the School of Civil lfngineering and about as many more who have had one or two years' instruction in this school. There are probablY 300 well trained civil engineers from Purdue University giving their service to the cities, counties and departments of Indiana, DR. W. K. Hur 124

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RALPH B, STONE The path from University Hall to the ,Xrmory is one that is used more than any other the first of every semester. It marks the way of all flesh that finds itself without an assignment card after having stood in line for at least an hour outside and inside the Armory. Nevertheless, the registration system as a whole is very successful for those who remain regular in their studies and represents the result of many trials of different systems patterned after other lvniversities. The schedule that a student receives. the professors that he chooses. and any change that may be necessary during the year. is made possible by the registra- tion system carefully worked out by Professor Stone. The office of the Registrar is the center of inttrest to the prospective students at Purdue. The student writes to Professor Stone for information, and is supplied with a catalogue and blanks to be filled out. This eatalogue is edited by the department and gives a complete description of all courses and where they enter into the schedule of the student. Besides the information received or the blanks filled out by the prospective students. the Registrar obtains information about him from his high school, and. if he is desirable. sends him a permit to register. The registration system is vital to every institution. and Professor Stone has worked out one for Purdue that has proved itself highly successful. 23

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ELECITRICAL ENGINEERING Wihere will you beg what will you be doing in 1938? Such a question is worthy of the asking. One such graduate within the ten-year period started out recently to test the U. S. S. Saratoga. the new airplane carrier propelled by the electrical power of six battleships. Another is in charge of the accept- ance tests of the turbine generators on the Panama Pacific Line California. the largest electrically-driven ship of her class in the world. In February of this year. when Sir Gliver Lodge. speaking in London was heard by an audience of fifteen hundred electrical engineers meeting simul- taneously in New York, an accomplishment of trans- Atlantic radio never before attempted, Purdue grad- uates were in part responsible for the technical features of the program. During the same meeting. as the New York auditorium was filled with the unprecedented volume and delicate modulation of organ and orchestra by means of the new exponential loud speaker. we were aware that it was the result of the careful research PROP- C' F- HARDING of another recent graduate of Purdue. The class of IQ28 has had even a more thorough and fundamental training. What will you be doing in 1938? Think it over. Wie wish you well. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING The School of Mechanical Engineering. the oldest in the University. is perhaps the most popular one. also. It always has a large enrollment, and, due to the way the students are kept interested in it. it always grad- uates a comparatively large percent of that number. Although the building is quite inadequate for such a large number of students, the arrangement is such that every bit of available room is used to the best advantage. To show the prestige of the Mechanical School, it is only necessary to mention the brake testing laboratories established here by the American Railway Association. Besides being headed by a man of such engineering ability as Professor Young, the School of Mechanical Engineering has one of the most popular and likeable staffs of professors that any student could hope for. 1 Perhaps this accounts for some of the popularity of the coursesghowever, a great deal of the popularity is caused by the many different kinds of employment ' and positions open to graduates of lVlechanical Engi- Pnor. G. A. Yotvszc neering from a University as well known as Purdue. '73