Trine University - Modulus Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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' Department Of Civil Engineering The work of the Civil Engineering course is intended to teach the students the fundamentals of civil engineering practice, and to point out the importance of sound theory as the basis of all practical engineering problems. It is also intended to give the sources from which they can find the information necessary to make successful surveyors, highway, municipal, and railroad engi¬ neers, and to help structural engineers in timber, steel, and concrete design. The civil engineer does not always achieve his greatest success from his background of technical training, although the habit of thought acquired during this period often trains him for executive and administrative work. The planning and executing of important work bring to the surface qualities of leadership. Biographies of great men reveal that many of them were civil engineers. The exactness of reasoning instilled in the mind of the student is such that he be¬ comes a thinker and a builder who can build and organization as well as a structure. When one considers the many different branches of the work and the possibilities of each, it seems reasonable to think that one’s opportunities are unlimited in this great field.

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' Department Of Electrical Engineering Seated left to right: Professor Oscar Nelson, Laboratory Instructor; Professor Clyde E. Shaw, Head of Depart¬ ment of Electrical Engineering; Professor W. R. Gil¬ christ, Instructor; Professor A. E. Eberhadt, Instructor. Since Benjamin Franklin ' s experiments, electricity has revolutionized our life. Electric power, its generation, transmission, and utilization on land, at sea, and in the air,” in indus¬ try and in the household are the concern of the electrical engineer. Electrical standards and codes are being raised to higher levels, and the call is for properly trained men who can work up to the highly responsible positions. The Department of Electrical Engineering was founded at Tri-State in 1909. The 300 Building houses this department. A well-balanced course in electrical engineer¬ ing requires not only the necessary application of mathematics and science as taught in the classroom, but such laboratory work and drill as will offer the student a chance to apply the theory he has learned in the class room, thus equipping him to enter the many electrical engineering vocations upon the completion of his course.