Texts: Dawes, “Electrical Engineering”, Vols. I & II; McKone, Laboratory Manual “Applied Electricity”.
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
- Professor V. T. Stewart
- Assoc. Prof. J. A. Bradley
- Assoc. Prof. P. M. Giesy
- Asst. Prof. J. Joffe
- Asst. Prof. A. S. Kohler
- Mr. F. W. Bauder
- Mr. S. J. Baum
- Mr. M. Frederick
- Mr. G. C. Keeffe
- Mr. L. Z. Pollara
- Mr. S. N. Sadoff
- Mr. T. J. Tully
- Dr. A. S. Williams
The four year course in Industrial Chemistry is broad in scope and is designed to give the student a thorough background in the fundamental sciences, engineering subjects, and the necessary cultural subjects. It forms an adequate basis for advanced courses of a professional nature in science and engineering and, by further training, in the methods of scientific research.
The earlier part of the course provides the essential foundations of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Later comes thorough drill in the assimilation, acquirement of facility of application, and blending of the more theoretical instruction of the earlier years.
To give the student a sound grasp of the subject matter, problems of various types form an important part of the curriculum. The laboratory work is almost exclusively quantitative. The student is required to record observations and to express experimental data in an orderly and precise manner.
Incidental to the formal instruction are such matters as the use of library, methods of finding all that is known of a particular product or process, and the writing of reports.
Courses of a cultural nature constitute an important part of the curriculum. Their purpose is to develop in the young technical worker an intelligent approach to contacts with his fellow workers and to responsibilities of a broader social nature. Like all technical men, the chemist may become a business executive, in which event some breadth of vision may be of the utmost importance to him.
The Chemistry Laboratories
These laboratories are located on the top floor of the Laboratory Building, the laboratories being two in number. The large laboratory is devoted to courses in General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis, and the smaller one to more advanced work in analysis and to organic chemistry. There is also a balance room and a stock room, both easily accessible to the two laboratories.