University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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overhauled and put in excellent shape, and a large amount of permanent work accomplished, such as installing machinery on concrete foundations, putting the electric wiring in iron conduits and making up auxiliary equipment. In each of the groups some men were found who proved very capable because of past experience in their line of work and they were used as assistants and sub-instructors. Some difficulty was experienced because of the crowded conditions of the laboratories when it became necessary to have men of the collegiate section running engineering tests while men from the vocational section were overhauling machinery nearby, although it should be said that each group saw their duty and did their best on the work assigned to them. Although due to war conditions it has been very difficult to secure new laboratory equipment during the past year, several fine electrical instruments have been purchased. Among these may be mentioned an oscillograph, an electric tachometer, and a polyphase wattmeter. With the impetus given to engineering, due to the war and the prospect of a large enrollment next semester, the outlook for this department of engi- neering is exceedingly bright. Prof. Stanley C. Palmer l tn n 1 1 ' MORRILL HALL 22

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«9hiliii® lili THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii IN November, 191 7, three men out of a total staff of five in the Mechani- cal and Electrical Engineering Department, entered the U. S. Govern- ment service. Dean J. G. Scrugham was commissioned a Major in the Ordnance Department at Washington and has since won a promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel. Assistant Professor A. W. Preston entered the navy as a Chief Machinist and later was promoted to the rank of Ensign. Mr. P. G. McKinley, through the recommendation of the national engineering societies, was commissioned a Junior Lieutenant in the navy. The services of Mr. Frank Anderson were then secured as instructor in shop work through the courtesy of the officials of the Sparks railroad shops. Soon after the spring term closed in 1918, the University was asked to make arrangements for training soldiers in vocational work. A contract was made with the Government and on June 15th one hundred men were sent from the various draft boards in the state. The men were divided into groups as follows: Twenty in electrical repairs, twenty in concrete con- struction, ten in carpentry, and the remaining fifty in locomotive repair work at the Sparks railroad shops. The campus at once took on a very military aspect but as summer school was m session at the time, lawn parties and other social affairs were held during the first eight weeks which tended to brighten the order of things. The men all took an interest in their work and several of them were ap- pointed to Officers ' Training Camps. The second detachment came August 1 5 and was given the same work as the first, although the carpentry and con- crete courses were combined into one course. When the new barracks building was completed, the number of men in the vocational work was increased to two hundred and the additional hun- dred men were sent to the Sparks shops. The carpentry and concrete courses were discontinued and a course in surveying was given instead. Automobile repairing was also given in the Mechanical and Electrical laboratories in addition to the electrical repair work, the number in this course being in- creased to thirty. During this course, most of the laboratory equipment was 3fe 21

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SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING SINCE the last Artemisia was published, the Civil Engineering Faculty has been increased in size and efficiency by the acquisition of Professor C. R. Hill, who came to the University of Nevada October, 1917. His particular branch of civil engineering is structural engineering and he came fresh from the bridge department of the New York Central Rail- road where he had worked for several years designing bridges and other structures. The department no longer being a one man department, is able to cover the broad field more effectively than formerly. The Packard Mining Camp was the scene of the struggles of the summer surveying class of 1917 and most of the members of that class have since done valiant service for their country, sometimes in camps affording no more of the luxuries of home life than did the three tents of the Packard Survey Camp. During the year 1917-18 most of the civil engineering students forsook the campus for more exciting fields of action and judging by their letters some of them found others besides college professors who demand strenuous mental effort. But one of our civil engineering students stayed long enough to earn his sheepskin in that eventful year, because it took Uncle Sam three trials to find out how to get him. That same Uncle Sam needed him so badly that he finally had to reach down one-half inch to get him, but did it just in time to snatch him away from final examinations. However, Billy made his com- mission in the Engineering Corps in spite of missing the important drill of Senior final examinations. The writer went East on United States Explosives Plant construction m March, 1918, leaving Prof. Hill to try out the one man department scheme for the balance of the year. Incidentally, in that Eastern job the writer noticed that among engineers from all parts of the country the Western men did not have to ask any favors of the Eastern men. The Section B, S. A. T. C, took most of the writer ' s time, October t6 December inclusive, again disorganizing the work of the Civil Engineering Qxz m !■ iW lHflifljWUMItMiliffiMHflM irtiMflWitHtiMaiB 23