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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1911)
-ri,-.Mfr.JnMiiiTniwii W "VwmMMHnm THE DAILY NEBRASKAN HEW ENGINEERING FIELD OPENSJNMULfll NOT MUCH 8EEN IN THIS BRANCH BY 80ME. OTHERS PREDICT GREAT FUTURE Three or Four Fields of Employment Now Open to Students Will Change Farming. To the Htudont in tho high bcIioo! attempting to decide upon which line or work he shall adopt for his own fiituro, tlio engineering profession in It's various branches always loom lnrge. Perhaps to his limited vlBlon a. mechanical engineer appears simply as a man who runs an engine, an oloctrlcal engineer as a man who manages the local power house or runs the wires nnd poles over the town nnd the civil engineer is merely a glorified Burvoyor. Unless the stu dent hns had some oxporlence around engineering offices or on engineering projects he will not realize the broad ness of engineering work until he has spent at least two years In some on glneorlng college or university. HI. cy'B will then bo opened and ho will got v larger vision of the great field lie fore hi in. Agricultural Engineering being a practically now field, la seen by many men In the older branchos of engineer ing nlmost as imperfectly aB tho'r work In turn Is viewed by the younr student. They seo In the agricultural engineer a man who Is running a traction engine through the dusty fields, or who Is down In the ditch laying tile, or who Is swinging a ham ir.er, erecting a corn crib. Only those who are making a special study of the work can seo the broadness of It and the future of it. It might be pos sible that those who see the work In such u light see It through a magni fying glaBB. It will take time to provo this, however. There are throe different fields of employment now open to tho agrlcul " fuTal engineer, -with possibly a fourth.. Probably tho groatost of these at present is instructional work. The other two are as consulting engineers and managers of large farms. While the fourth might be that of designing special machinery for agricultural purposes. This field of work should, however, bo covered at present by the consulting engineer and the me chanical engineer. This seems to point to tho develop ment of two widely varying types of farming, the small farm upon which horse power Is UBed to the very great exclusion of machinery, and the largo farm with its tendency to eliminate the horso nnd which In order to bo operated with tho greatest possible economy muBt bo of a size sufficient to reduce as much as possible the time when the machinery is Idle. Modern machinery Is changing the size of the farms which may be han dled economically. The last two census reports show a decrease in the number of medium Blzed farms "and an Increase In tho number of large and of tomall farms. In tho coun tries where tho Innd has bqen taken up since the advent of power ma chinery for tho fields tho farms are remaining largo and are bolng han dled by mechanical power. In all of the great wheat states, it is not nn uncommon thing to see a largo farm which is being handled altogether by farm tractors. Agricultural machin ery has been developed more for Hand ling wheat than for any other line of farming. But farmers can not al ways raise wheat, hence in order to do intensive farming with tractors and the like there is a demand for a , consulting agricultural engineer who Is nble to plan the machinery and lay out the other equipment so that tho products of the farm can bo handled with tho mechanical motive power which has proven in tho last few years to be so much cheaper than the animal motor. Drninnge is another line of work which is typically agricultural nnd has in this section ns yet been hardly be gun. In order to got this work start ed flic government has been com pelled to do the engineering on a few projects without compensation. Tho people are now awako to the iiocos-. slty of the work and a great field is opening up. Even now the farmers are learning tho benefits of properly designing buildings and equipment and there is a field of engineering here which Is ready to be utilized as soon ns there are men to handlo it. Tho courses in agricultural en gineering as they are now being pre sented In the vnrlous colleges are not completely worked out. This can bo explained In two ways. The field is new and the material Is not at hand for good cultural work. Nearly all of tho courses offered are simply com piled statements of facts which should be offered as first or second year work. Mien havo not been developed In the proper lines- of education to hnndle tho work satisfactorily. As requisite for a good teacher In this work n man must be an engineer, a practical farmer, an economist, tho possessor of a' large amount of In ventive ability as woll as an onglneer. When the work becomed better grounded nnd sufficient Btudents take tho coursos enable the development of specialists In the lines then agri cultural engineering Bhould bo put on a firm pedagogical basis which should make It of a practical, technical, and cultural course. ENGINEERING ORADS WHERE THE MEN OF 1909 AND 1910 AFfE AT PRESENT LOCATED. Klnju Akngl. B. Sc., C. E., '10, Stn tlon A, Lincoln, Nebr. It. H. Bailey, B. Sc, C. E., '10. Kear ney, -Nebr. I. P. Bakor, B. Sc, E. E., '09, West inghousc Elbe. Mfg. Co., WIlklnsbnr, Penn H O. Bauman, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Bureau of Lands, Manilla, P. I. 0. E. Bennett, B. Sc, E. E., '09, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 1. S. Bigger, B. Sc, E. E., '09, Unl verslty Place, Nebr. W. H. Blanchard, B. Sc, C. E., 'JO, iitstrumentman, Lake Zurich. 111. W. N. Bozarth. B. Sc, C. E., '10, Hebron, Nebr. E. M. Buol, B. Sc, C. E., '09, con sulting engineer. Seattle, Wash. W. H. Burleigh. B. Sc, M. E., '10. Rock Island Railway, Rock Island, 111. W. E. Byerts, B. Sc, E. E.. '10, Gen eral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. R, E. Campbell, B. Sc, E. E., Na tional Electric Lamp Assn., Clove land, Ohio. A. M. Candy, B. Sc, E. E., '09, Westlnghouse Elec Co., Wllkinsburg, Penn. H. J. Carey, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Kear ney, III. E. E. Casebeor, B. Sc, E. E '09, Blue Springs, Kan. 6. H. Chalmers, B. Sc, C. E., '10, San Francisco, Cal. Wim. Chaloupka, B. Sc, C. E., '10, irrigation engineer, Brogan, Ore. Jesse B. Clarke, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Lincoln, Nebr. R. L. .Cochran, B. Sc, C. E., ?10, deputy county surveyor, North Platte, Nebr. R. B. Cunningham, B. Sc, M. E., 09, Lincoln Traction Co., Lincoln, Nebr. H. C. Currier, B. Sc, E. E., 09, Yo semito, Cal. O. E. Davis, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Ne braska Telephone Co., Omaha, Nebr. W, A, Davidson, B. Sc, C. 13., '10', Fairfield, Nebr. . I. W. Dyo, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Blon J. Arnold Co., Chicago, III.. H. L..Flsko, B. Sc, C. E., '10, en gineering department,. Panama Rail road Co., Colon, Pan. H. C. Fleming, B. Sc, C. E., '09, student appointee, department of agri culture, office of Public Roads, Wash ington, D. C O. W. French, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Torreon Coah. Mexico. , C. R. Fulton, B. Sc, C. E., 09, with Grant & Letton, contractors, Lincoln, Nebr. R. A. Gantt, B. Sc, E. E., '09, Ne braska Telephone Co., Omaha, Nebr. H. E. Grosbeck, B. Sc, C.E., '10. Junior engineer U. S. Geological Sur vey, Washington, D. C. . E. F. Guldlnger, B. Sc, E. E., '09, St. Paul Law School, St. Paul, Minn. C. Ml Hardin, B. Sc, M. E., '10, Westlnghouse Mfg. Co., 910 Franklin Ave., Wllkinsburg, Penn. F. C. Harding, B. Sc, E. E., '10, WestinghoiiBo Elec Co., Wllkinsburg, Penn. R. L. Harrison. B. Sc, E. E., '09, Grand Island, Nebr. J. B. Harvey, B. Sc, E. E., '09, Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Ry., Omaha, Nebr. L. R. Hegglund, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, Nebr. J. A. Hepperlln, B. Sc, E. E., '10, General Elec. Co., Schnectndy, N. Y. H. W. Hlnman, B. Sc. M. E., '09, Santa Fe R. R. Co., 'Clovls, New Mex ico. .1. C Hoge, B. Sc, E. E., '10, clty englneer's office, Lincoln, Nebr. B. M. Howard, B. Sc, C. E., '09, care Jas. A. Green, 228 Le Salle St., Chicago, 111. G. W. Huey, B. Sc, E. E., '10, West lnghouse Elbe Co., Wllkinsburg, Penn. A. W. Hummel. B. Sc, E. E., '10, 2938 Lexington St., Chicago, 111. C. B. Huston, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Gen eral Elec. Co., Schnectady, N. Y. A. E. Ingersoll, B. Sc, E. E., '10, General Elec Co., Schnectady, N. Y. B. P. Johnson, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Gen eral Elec. Co., Schnectady, N. Y. F. W. Johnson, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail way, Omaha, Nebr. J, B. Johnson, Jk.Sc, E. E., 'lQFre mont Gas Co., Fremont, Nebr. W. A. Jones, B. Sc, C. E., '10, South Omaha, Nebr. C. D. Runkel, B. Sc, E. E., '10, WeBtinghouse Elec. Co., Pittsburg, Penn. H. C. La Chappelle, B. Sc., E. E., "10, Ashlnnd Lighting Co., Ashland, Nebr. R. H. Lebermnn, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Manitoba Central R. R. Co., Winnipeg, Canada. H. P. Letton, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Cor nell university, Ithaca, N. Y. K. L. Ludwig, B. Sc, C. E., '10, with Rlemers-Kaufman Co., Lincoln, Nebr. J. G. Mason, B. Sc, C. E., '10, with John Westovor Iron Works Co.. Lin coln, Nebr. F. E. McCall, B. Sc, E. E '09, Min neapolis General Elec. Co., Minneapo lis, Minn. C. W. Mengel, B. Sc, C. E., '10, as: slstant drainage engineer, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C A. H. Meyer, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Grand Island, Nebr, C. E. Miller, B. Sc, C. E., '10, C. & N. W. R. R. Co., Sparta, Wis. D. C. Mitchell, B. Sc, C. E., '10, care School of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. O. N. MMnn, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Ne braska City, Nebr. A. E. Neff, B. Sc, M. E., '10, in structor in Purdue university, Lafay ette, Ind, N. P. Nelson, B. Sc, C E., '09, Birds Eye, Wyo. ' H. E. Newell, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Bea trice, Nebr. H. S. Nixon, B. Sc, C. E.. '10, field engineer, 721" No. 18th St., South Omaha, Nebr. E. R. Polllster, B. Sc, E. E.f '09, Ne braska Telophonq Co., 1923 So. 18th St., Omaha, NebrT " " ' ,s-' ' O. L. Phillips, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Birds Eye, Wyo. W. J. Provaznik, B.' Sc, C. E., '10, city engineering department, Omaha, Nebr. W, A. Racely, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Pen der, Nebr. C. A. Rleniors, B. Sc, C. E., '09, Pierce, Nobr. J. A. Ryan, B. Sc, C. E '10, North Platte, Nebr. H. C. Schleutcr, B. Sc, C. E., '10, irrigation engineer, Ft. Morgan, Colo. D. F. Smith, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Gen eral Elec Co., Schnectady, N. Y. J. R. Smith, B. Sc, E.E., '09, Bryan Marsh Co., Minneapolis, Minn. C. P. Soderburg, B. Sc, E. E., '10, National Elec. Lamp Assn., Cleveland, Ohio. C. F. Spellmoyer, B. Sc, C. E., '10, Aurora, Nebr. A. D. Stancllffe, B. Sc, M. E., '10, Pecos, Texn8. M. E. Stricter, B. Sc, M. E., 10, mechanical draftsman, Ordnance Dept., Rock Island Arsenal, U. S. A., Davenport, Iowa. J. D. Taylor, B. Sc, E. E.. '09, Ne braska Tele. Co., Omaha, Nebr. C. A. Thompson, B. Sc, M. E., '09, office of superintendent of construc tion, University of South Dakota. C. E. Thornburg, B. Sc, E. E., '10, General Elec. Co., Schnectady, N. Y. J. O. Trude, B. Sc, E. E., '10, Oma ha Power and Light Co., Omaha, Nebr. H. L. Unland, B. Sc, E. E '10, Gen eral Elec. Co.. Schnectady, N. Y. D. B. Urtula, B. Sc, M. E., '09, In structor in mechanical drawing, Insti tute of San Isedro, Nuva Ecipa, P. I. O. E. Van Berg, B. Sc, '10. Aurora, Nebr. O. P. Vlllanueva, B. Sc, E.. E., '10, Barnages. P. I. H. S. Villers, B. Sc, E. E., '10. Lin coln, Nebr W. F. Vivian. B. Sc, E. E., '10, Gen oral Elec Co., Schnectady, N. Y. A. B. Wellensick, B. Sc. E. E., '09, 9C6 Ogden St., Denver, Colo. R. T. Wenstrand, B. Sc, C. E., 10, Western Bridge and Construction Co., 340 Bee Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. F. O. Whelock, B. Sc, E. E., '10, district plant Inspector, Boll Tele. Co., Lincoln,- Nebr. Vallery White. B. Sc.', E. E.TT10', Ne braska Tele. Co., Omaha, Nebr. F. N. Wlldish, B. Sc. C. E., '09, Birds Eye, Wyo. W. J. Wohlenborg, B. Sc, M. E., '10, Westlnghouse Mfg. Co., Pittsburg, Pa. H. C. Wolters, B. Sc, C. E., '10, civil onglneer, Lincoln, Nobr. H. C. Woods, B. Sc, C. E '09, In structor in mechanical drawing, Uni versity of Colorado. F. C. Zimmerman, B. Sc, E. E., '09, Westlnghouso Elec. Co., Wllkinsburg, Penn. FOR BEST SWEDISH STUDENT. Prize of Twenty-five Dollars Offered University of Nebraska. "The Society for the Preservation of SwediBh Culture in America!' has included the University of Nebraska In the list of institutions which are to give prizes for excellence in tho Swedish language and literature. The prize given at the University of Ne braska -will be called "Andrew Lan quist's Stipendium," in honor of Mr. Lanquist of Chicago, -who has liberal ly contributed to tho fund. Tho prize amounts to twenty-five dollars and will bo offered yearly to that regular student of the University who haB given best evidence of excellence in Swedish. The name of tho recipient will be announced at Commencement exercises in June of each year. The Phi Beta Kappa society at Yale has organized a baseball team and Is taking an active part in the lnterfra ternity games: thore. Lasjt Thursday Phi Beta Kappa played a twelve-inning tie with the. Yale News. r -2JZU A jl SjL A - v i ?&&... mtt