As the course proceeds extra-curricular activities are considered in their relation to the academic values.
The objective of the course is to give some purposeful direction to the activities of the freshman and to possibly establish some sense of values inherent in his undergraduate work.
The course consists of a series of two-hour discussion periods in subjects carefully and sequentially arranged and definitely scheduled. The discussions are led by members chosen from the entire staff for their particular fitness to explain professional values in terms within the students’ experience.
Ind E 12 Principles of Engineering (The Industry).
A series of discussions centering about personal problems having for its object the preparation of the student for the required industrial experience to follow his sophomore year. Believing that general attitudes, point of view, emotional and personality factors are of the greatest importance in any common enterprise, the discussions are so directed as to clarify some of the common misconceptions concerning modern industrial practice as it touches the individual.
A serious attempt is made to induce the student to undertake some constructive program of personality and character development, to meet the standards required of those who can successfully live and work together. While the work of the previous year has served to explain the internal standards and objectives of the college, this continuation of the course explains the aims, objectives and values inherent in the great industrial laboratory.
Ind E 13 Staff Control.
The subject matter of this course includes those factors which have to do with human behavior and with human relation problems. It deals with the coordination of the young engineer with his environment. Particular attention is given to the professional, economic, social, emotional and moral phases of this correlation.
In the junior year the students discuss twenty-five to thirty books on human relations and subjects which affect human behavior. The subject matter of these books, in outline form, is presented to the class by the students.
Ind E 14 Staff Control.