The aim of the College is to train and educate earnest and industrious students along technical lines. This is the first and the supreme duty of the College; all other activities are secondary.
The professional departments expect student participation in the activities of the student branches of the national professional engineering societies.
The Faculty recognizes the importance of social and athletic activities if properly co-ordinated with the more serious work of instruction.
ATHLETICS
In common with some of the better technical institutions in the country the College does not support a varsity football or baseball team. The athletic activities are designed to interest the average student and to develop him rather than to overdevelop a small group.
Varsity competition in basketball, fencing, tennis and track athletics is encouraged, and the College each year puts teams into the field.
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
- Professor H. N. Cummings
- Assoc. Prof. W. S. La Londe
- Asst. Prof. O. P. L. Albert
- Asst. Prof. J. M. Robbins
- Asst. Prof. R. W. Van Houten
- Mr. F. A. Busse
- Mr. D. C. Frost
- Mr. W. J. Hoffman
The Civil Engineering course is planned to prepare young men for municipal engineering work, highway work, construction work, or work in the general field of scientific management. Because of the temporary slowing down of work in the civil engineering field, during recent years, streets, highways, water supply and sewage disposal systems, bridges, etc. have become seriously run-down or inadequate. Trained young men will be needed in the near future to take part in the repair, replacement, or enlargement of these necessities. The trend toward large sectional projects, sponsored by the federal government, indicates another field of opportunity for young men trained in civil engineering.
To give students training in the fundamentals of civil engineering, so that they may qualify for employment in any of the lines of work above mentioned, a problem in municipal engineering is used, providing much of the instruction of Junior and Senior years. A topographical survey and map are made of a tract of land containing about a hundred acres. This tract is then subdivided into streets and lots as in a suburban community. The water supply and sewage disposal systems for this tract are designed in connection with the sanitation course. Streets and roads are located and designed as a problem in the highway course. Bridges, culverts, retaining-walls, etc., such as would be required in municipal, or highway work, are designed as part of the work of the senior course in structures.