United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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f ENGINEERING Ships have become floating power houses made up of an intricate mass of machinery and equipment. To operate and maintain our ships, the naval officer must be familiar with basic engineering principles and their naval applications. In addition to knowing practical engineering, he must cultivate the ability to think scien- tifically, to analyze problems and to synthesize logical conclusions. To this end, the Department of Marine Engineering has provided four years of basic engineering education and training including Plebe Summer shop drills, Engineering Drawing and Descriptive Geometry, Engineering Materials, Basic Mechanisms and Naval Machinery. During Second Class Year, Fluid Mechanics bridged the gap between Physics and engineering; Thermodynamics, which followed, introduced a new world of entropy and enthalpy. Internal Combustion Engines and Naval Construction rounded out the course of instruction and produced the finished product a junior officer equipped with a sound understanding of the broad aspects of marine engineering and a basis for understanding future develop- ments in the engineering field. It ' s data-taking time in the thermo- dynamics laboratory. The midship- man above, armed with the unfor- gettable clipboard, is taking a reading on one of the seemingly thousands of thermometers projecting from a lab heat exchanger. To the right, the pattern woodworking shop lathes hum as the plebes find out what calipers are used for. 2i i.

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TllMilT - V-T MARINE Captain C. E. Trescott, USN The department of Marine Engineering $ 20

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ENGLISH, HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT . . . but you DID pass the composition . . . B. o Captain J. F. Davidson, USN John Paul Jones made a famous statement of the characteristics a naval officer should possess: It it by no means enough that an officer should be a capable mariner. He must be that of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy and the nicest sense of personal honor. The Department of English, History, and Government considers this to be an excellent statement of our goal. To attain the non-professional aspects of it, we have tried to insure that the young naval officer can write and speak like an educated gentleman; that he has read and shared the inspirations of great writers of the past; that he understands the part he plays as officer and citizen under the Constitution and appreciates the fundamentals of economics; that he is aware of the guiding principles of naval warfare and the inspiration of great naval leaders of all lands and ages; and that he can speak with clarity and conviction. This department implements these aims as its share in making the young officer in fact an educated and courteous gentleman with the highest ideals of honor and responsibility. The Department of English, History, and Government 22