South Dakota State College - Jack Rabbit Yearbook (Brookings, SD)

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Department gf Physics and Electrical Engineering H. B. MATHEWS, M. S. Vice President Professur of Physics and Electrical Engineeving H. H. HOY, M. S. Instructor in Physics and Electrical Engineering 14

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. Science in all its branches has never received more attention than to-day. Success of industrial enterprises depends largely upon the intelligent application of facts and princi- ples brought to light in the laboratories of technical schools. The department of physics was formerly included in the department of chemistry. They were separated in the fall of 1893 when the work in physics was taken charge of by the present head of the department. The first laboratory course in physics was offered in the fall of ISQ3-V From the two rooms that it occupied at that time it has expanded until it now occupies all of the first floor Cexcepting one class roomj of the main part of the Engineering and Physics Building with its large, well-equipped. well-lighted laboratories, an office and. a class room. A lecture room. an apparatus room and an office are on the second floor wl1ile the electrical engineering laboratory is provided for in one of the wings of the same building. The department was enlarged several years ago to include the work in electrical en- gineering in which a full course is now offered. Water, gas and electricity are provided for the lecture rooms, dark room and labogt- tories. The large lecture room is being seated with tablet opera chairs. Several volumes of reference books upon the various lines of physics and electrical engineering are kept in the library. The advanced laboratories are provided with non-vibratory piers. The equipment of the department for the work in physics includes such expensive pieces of appar- atus as analytical balances, cathetometer, spectrometer, microscopes, photometers, sirens. standard cells, small dynamos and motors, astatic, differential, tangent, D'Arsonval and bal- listic galvanometers, storage cells, magnetometer, ammeters, voltmeters, induction coils, Wheatstone bridges, X-ray and wireless telegraphy apparatus- In the Electrical Engineering laboratory may be found standard types of the various direct and alternating current dynamos and motors, recording and indicating wattmeters, transformers, photometer and electrical measuring instruments. In fact the laboratories of this department have a good equipment and are having it added to each year so that the opportunities offered for investigation in its different lines of work are equal to those of the best institutions of the Northwest. The work offered in physics includes three full courses of elementary work requiring a full year for completion. In connection with this is a carefully selected list of experiments chosen and arranged to Ht in with the text-book work in the class room. The same plan is followed in connection with the advanced courses along this line of work. A year's work is offered in General Physics, which consists of courses along the same general lines as the elementary work, differing from it in that it is a much more thorough and comprehensive treatment of the different subjects. The advanced work offered is intended for those wish- ing to make a specialty of science subjects. The course in Electricity and Magnetism offered in connection with this advanced work is the preliminary work required of students in the Electrical Engineering course. That the courses are well arranged and admirably adapted for the purpose for which they were designed is evidenced by the singular success of S- D. A. C. graduates who have been called to the position of science teachers in this and various other states. Graduates of the College are admitted without examination to the graduate courses of the best universities of the country. , The establishment of a course in Electrical Engineering is comparatively recent, yet it has been popular for the number of young men enrolling for this work is increasing rapidly each year. The work in this course is largely under the control of Professor Hoy. The work is arranged and presented according to methods followed in many of the most successful engineering schools of the country. While the department is comparatively new, those who have completed the course have been giving a good account of themselves in their chosen line of work. The members of the last graduating classes have had no trouble in securing positions with the largest electrical manufacturing establishments in the United States, while this year there has been a greater demand for graduates along this line of work than the institution has been able to supply. It would not be possible in a brief statement of this kind to enter into a discussion of the vast possibilities along this line of work nor can a technical description of the apparatus be attempted. Suffice it to say that with the apparatus we have and a comparatively small body of students more individual attention can be given and the best results are obtained. 13

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DEP.-XRTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. JAMES H. SHEPARD, B. S. Professor of Chemistry ready to commence higher work. Next in o Chemistry. I-Iere he learns exact quantitative and to determine the percentage and eompositi and volumetric methods. The next course is o application of the wet method of analysis for a This department is equipped with the latest and most improved appliances for instruction. VVhen the student commences the subject he is assigned a desk provided with all the appa- ratus and fixtures needed. The first course of- fered is in Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry. This course makes the student familiar with the common elements. their compounds and tests up to the metals. Chemical theory is also included. The next course is Qualitative Inor- ganic Chemistry. This makes the student fa- miliar with the metals and the principles of qualitative analysis. Upon completing this course he next advances to the elements of Grganic Chemistry, which treat of the com- mon organic compounds met with in daily life as well as the classification and theories under- lying this branch. The object of these three courses is to give the student a good knowl- edge of general chemistry. He is taught its uses and applications. and now finds himself rder he enters upon a course in Quantitative methods. how to separate the different bases on of compounds. He uses both gravimetric ne in Volumetric Analysis. This teaches the ll the different organic acids and compounds and also their application and the determination of those inorganic substances which are more readily handled in that way. NVhen a s tudent has reached this point he is able to take up with benefit the Chemistry and Physiology of Foods. This course includes the princi- ples of nutrition, the methods of compoundin taries. At this point the student derives much benefit from the detection of adulterants, col- oring matter and preservatives as they are found in the prepared foods of our markets. After pursuing his course thus far. a few stu- dents who desire to specialize now take up Agricultural and Sanitary Analysis. where they learn the analysis of all kinds of foods, feeding stuffs. soils and waters. Agricultural students are also given a course in Agricultural Chemistry, which goes mi- nutely into the application of chemistry to everyday farm life. Finally students so elect- ing may take a course in Industrial Chemistry which has for its object a study of the manu- facturing processes in which chemistry enters so largely at the present time- It will be seen from the foregoing description that a student who has taken all the chemistry work in the South Dakota Agricultural College finds him- self well equipped indeed. g balanced rations and a study of human die- FRANK A. NORTON, M. S., Ph. G. 15 Assistant in Chemistry 4