Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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CIVIL ENGINEERING The work within the Department of Civil Engineering is a part of the unspecialized curriculum of Stevens. General and specific aims are: to assist in giving to all graduates a broad engineering education to open to view the scope of Civil Engineering, and further, to show its relation to the other major branches of engineering. His- torically the oldest of all engineering activities, it is based on scientific principles and covers its own comprehensive field, yet its development from early times has been materially aided by the use of machines and appliances. At the end of the freshman year, both theoretical and practical instruction in field engineering is given for a period of six weeks at the Stevens Engineering Camp. During the sophomore and junior years the courses in mechanics, hydraulics and testing of materials are given here in other departments. ln the senior year the work of the Department deals with the development of the underlying theory of the main branches of Civil Engineeringg structures of steel and of reinforced concrete, brief fundamental theory in highway engineering, foundations and municipal engi- neering, Emphasis at all times is placed upon the funda- mental analysis of a problem, which is conceived to be of prime importance, regardless of the particular field of engineering. Alumni records show that quite a good number of Stevens graduates have found their primary interests in this field, and numbers of them have attained to places of eminence in the field of Civil Engineering. DAVID L. SNADER, Professor Department of Civil Engineering 9

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7 -Y-W v CHEMISTRY Freshman Year - General Chemistry. Experimental lectures and recitations. Four hours per week. Sophomore Year - Qualitative and Quantitative Anal- ysis, including the analysis of boiler feed waters. First term, 4 hours laboratory and l hour recitation per week. Second term, Zl hours Midwinter week, plus 3 hours laboratory per week. junior Year - Industrial Chemistry. Chemistry of Fuels, Engineering Materials and Metallurgy. Lectures and Recitations, 3 hours per week. Analysis of Engineering Materials, including gas anal- ysis and calorimetry, First term, 4 hours laboratory per week. Physical Methods of Analysis of Engineering Materials, including hydrogen-ion determination, optical methods, distillation and metallography. Second term, 3 hours per week. Senior Year - Organic Chemistry. Elective course. Lectures and recitations. 3 hours per week. Advanced Industrial Chemistry. Elective course. Lec- tures and recitations. 3 hours per week. Metals. Elective Course. Lectures and recitations. 3 hours per week, laboratory optional. The aims in the instruction in the various chemical Courses are primarily to teach the students the funda- mental principles underlying chemical changes, to broaden their general chemical knowledge, to train them in habits of exact experimentation, and to make them as familiar as possible with those chemical principles, tests and analyses which are of importance in general engineering and chemical engineering work. The time devoted to chemistry at Stevens is rather more than in many engineering courses, but is less than in most specialized chemical engineering courses. However, in the past years, Stevens graduates have been able to succeed in nearly all branches of the chemical industry, and in many cases have competed successfully with the graduates of more specialized four-year courses in chemical engineering. FRANCIS 1. POND, Professor Department of Chemistry 8

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A ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING To carry out the general purposes of the curriculum at Stevens, this Department endeavors to meet the follow- ing demands: first, to fit graduates to enter any branch of electrical engineering and, through continuing their study, to compete successfully with graduates of more highly specialized electrical engineering courses: sec- ondly, to equip graduates entering other fields of engi- neering to deal intelligently with such electrical matters as may come within their duties and, finally, to assist in giving all graduates a broad technical education that will enable them to attack new problems with vision and con- fidence. ln the junior Year, second term, the basic physical laws and relations of electric conduction, electromag- netism, and electrostatics are discussed with reference to their engineering applications, and are illustrated by care- fully selected classroom problems and laboratory exer- cises. Throughout the Senior Year the fundamental electrical and magnetic concepts and principles are applied in the study of standard direct-current and alternating-current machinery equipment, measuring instruments, and power transmission and distribution circuits, communication systems - wire and radio - including applications of vacuum and gas-filled electronic tubes: and electrical transients. Laboratory exercises and the solution of numerous problems provide practice in the interpretation and calculation of engineering data. The Electrical Engineering Laboratories are equipped with a sufficient diversity of instruments, machines and apparatus to provide a varied program of undergraduate laboratory instruction. F. C. STOCKWELL, Professor Department of Electrical Engineering lO