Contents of Engineering Curricula
The unit is a semester-hour; i.e., five class-periods a week for half a year.
| General Subject | Collegiate Year | Total | |||
| I | II | III | IV | ||
| Mechanical drawing and descriptive geometry | 10 | ... | ... | ... | 10 |
| Rhetoric | 6 | ... | ... | ... | 6 |
| Modern language | ... | 8 | ... | ... | 8 |
| Pure mathematics | 10 | 8 | ... | ... | 18 |
| Science—physical and social | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 29 |
| Theoretical and applied mechanics | ... | 3 | 10 | ... | 13 |
| Technical engineering | ... | 8 | 20 | 32 | 60 |
| —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | |
| Total | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 144 |
The different engineering curricula
Below is a list of the principal four-year curricula offered by the engineering colleges of this country. The list contains forty different engineering curricula. No one institution offers all of these, but some of the larger and better equipped offer fifteen or sixteen different curricula for which a degree is given.
1. Architecture (which is usually classified as an engineering subject): general architecture; architectural design; architectural construction.
2. Ceramics engineering: general ceramics and ceramics engineering; ceramics; ceramics engineering.
3. Chemical engineering: general chemical engineering; metallurgical engineering; gas engineering; pulp and paper engineering; electro-chemical engineering.
4. Civil engineering: general civil engineering; railway civil engineering; municipal engineering; structural engineering; topographic or geodetic engineering; hydraulic engineering; irrigation engineering; highway engineering.