Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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college of agriculture The College of Agriculture has a special place at Utah State University for in 1888 when the school was first founded, it was established as a college primarily for agriculture, and it bore the name Utah State Agricultural College. Now the College of Agriculture conducts experiments and studies on farm animals and plants, many of which are in conjunction with the U.S Deportment of Agriculture. The College teaches all the occupations connected with the production, processing, and distribution of farm products. On campus, this college also runs the U.S.U. Creamery which makes milk, cheese, and that U.S.U. ice cream ' college of The college of Education, which is now the second largest single division on campus, strives to improve education of the mosses through a rigorous and varied program of educating its students. The university offers complete program-ming of teacher education in all phases of public school work. Its primary function is the preparation of teachers, administrators, supervisors, and other professional personnel. Guidance, leadership, and co-operation are but a few fundamental characteristics necessary in the training of educators. Our students strive to obtain these characteristics through diligent work and programming. Through actual classroom experience, students are taught the most beneficial methods of teaching others. Co-operative programming with other departments of the institution provides for teaching the selected majors and minors of the students. Careful attention is given to both staff and facilities in teacher education. Facilities in addition to the regular College of Education classroom include the Nursery School in Family Life. This enables future teachers to acquaint themselves with teaching techniques for pre-school children. Personality development and improvement through the use of modern psychology have become valuable aids to education. Much advanced work and studying has been initiated in the field of education and is now moving swiftly forward with new methods of understanding. 18

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The college of engineering hos a new building to accommodate it as one of the largest colleges at the University. With about 800 members the ratio of the sexes is about one to 100. One can tell the EPS Building — it's the new, big one' with an ancient-looking stone carving in the front and a white triangle monument to Sigma Tau, the engineering honorary, in the court. The other engineering honorary is Theta Tau. Dean Dean Peterson is a world renowned civil engineer, and so he is well qualified to lead this college. The Engineering College offers instruction in several types of engineering. The departments within the college are so varied as to include modern developments and techniques in tool and manufacturing engineering, which is in theory as old as mankind and the wheel, to developments in such new fields as electrical engineering. The college is always concerned with research and finding new ways and new ideas. The Department of Electrical Engineering has on electrodynamics laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts. Among other things, they ore carrying on research on the aurora borealis. Also, Utah State engineers were at Cape Kennedy doing work. The College of Engineering is growing. And looking ahead, long range plans call for additional construction of facilities to aid in its future growth. college of engineering 20