TROUBLES before
ENGINEERS' NIGHT
mm Tom
Hppeninfl ln Engineering Building
When Two Engineer Met While
preparation Were Being Made
It happened in the hall of the En
gineering Building. Two Engineers
met:
Wat you Grennan at?
Oh, Chat burned his hand.
S'o laugtria' mattei. Wat was 'e
doia'?
Putting up some Bunting for En
gineers' Night.
'Es a little Stout to climb around
decorating.
Yes. but the Dean ordered it.
Wv vour Hoff-man, I don't be
lieve it.
Well, its so ; he Chased all OTer to
find him.
Don't botfeve it; your no Moore of
a Skinner than Ferguson, or Engberg.
although Al-my profs say you are.
It's the fact, though; he was on the
Brenk-e quitin when the Dean told
him.
Why didn't 'e get that Bridge-man to
do it. and save usin' a ladder?
Because his wife came and Tuck-'er-man
home.
Wat. es married?
Yes. he's a Benedict. Raber sap.
Look at Rass-mussen up the decora
tions! Who is 'e?
A blacksmith, a Slay-maker, I be
lieve. Did you see that? Mic-keyed his way
ia the bunch and wants to fight Rass.
aad says. "1 will Rid-der-vold of sech
Peebles."
And HoIH-stered not the least.
Say, let's get out before we get
mi ied up in it.
Exit.
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DEAN O. V. P. STOUT
Mechanical Engineering
Courses in the mechanical engineer
iag schools of the country- touch mod
em practical life on every hand and
bear a close relationship to the de
velopment of the state. History and
economics clearly show this fact; that
although there is but slight increase
ia the consumption of primary, or
soil products with increase of modern
civilization, yet there Is always a
many thousandfold increase n the
consumption of secondary, or manu
factured products. Since considera-
tions relative to the manufactured
article and especially the treatment
of the scientific principles underlying
its production, constitute one branch
of engineering, there is at hand. In this
one branch alone, sufficient Justifica
tion for the universal introduction of
the study of mechanical engineering
into the curricula of our great state
uaiversfties.
The basis for the study of this
branch of mechanical engineering is.
of course, the shop laboratory", 1
which equipment the University of Ne
braska is exceptionally fortunate.
Facilities are provided for the study of
foundry practice, pattern production,
machining operations and the forging
of structural materials. Theory classes
of design, invention, calculation and
testing are offered, as well as the eco
nomics of practical shop production.
Practical machines, such as gas en
fines. tower punches. lathes, tele-
cop. and the like are designed and
produced by the students.
Power generation and auxiliary sub-
teas form another great braach of
mechanical engineering. In thU are
included the basic courses In the prac
tice and theory of beat motors, both
tam and gas, the testing and burn
ing of fuels and the design, construc
tion and testing of steam boilers, gas
producers, hydraulic power machinery,
conveyors and other poer plant
equipment Course are offered In
adng tad ventilating buildings and
'n refrigeration and Ice production.
Jbjects which touch most directly the
flalth and comfort of the people, and
which, are developing most rapidly."
It is impossible in an article of this
length to enumerate more fully the
opportunities in mechanical engineer
ing. In general, a very significant in
dex of the demand by the growing
state for a knowledge of things me
chanical is to be found In the rapidly
increasing introduction of elementary
manual training in the secondary
schools. At present the requests for
college graduated manual training in
structors far exceeds the supply. In
this w e see a more or less unconscious
preparation for supplying the enor
mous Increase In secondary consump
tion always accompanying- economic
development.
J. D. HOFFMAN.
Applied Mechanics
This department is somewhat poly
ma thic; a better word, prehaps, is
omnivorous. Besides theoretical and
applied mechanics there is taught gen
eral engineering, drawing, descriptive
geometry, mechanism, machine de
sign, materials of construction, roads
and pavements, architecture, and some
other things. Mechanics is frequently
confounded with machinery and me
chanical engineering; while closely
related to these subjects It Is more
nearly related to mathematics and
physics. Mechanics in the abstract,
that is theoretical or analytical me
chanics, is a mathematical treatment
of motion and the behavior of bodies
under the influences of forces. The
principles of mechanics appljed to
elastic bodies comprises the subject
of strength of materials; applied to
the movements of the parts of a ma
chine, mechaaisra; to liquids and
gases, hydrostatics and hydraulics.
(The subject hydraulics ia still being
taught ia the department of civil en
gineering.) Tne en ecu ot iorces upon
bodies, such as the materials of con
struction, can not be determined fully
by theoretical and mathematical con
siderations; it Is necessary to supple
ment these by experiments upon the
materials themselves. This brings up
the need ot laboratories and testing
machines. The department of applied
mechanics maintains three laborator
ies; one for the study and testing of
those materials made up of lime and
of hydraulic cement; one to study and
test materials, both bituminous and
non-bituminous, used in the construc
tion of roads and pavements; and
one of a more universal nature to
!udy and test the strength of the
building materials generally used
engineering structures.
All engineering freshmen are re
quired to take the work in general
engineering drawing. It is taught as
a language, the universal language In
which the engineer and designer ex
presses and records his ideas for the
building of machines and other struc
tures. Drawing as thus taught Is a
liberal and not a fine art. This is
followed by descriptive geometry, of j
use for its mathematical and disci-!
plinary value as well as its practical
aid in later engineering work.
Mechanism and machine design are
largely described in their names. That
they are of great practical importance
goes without saying when one thinks
of the tremendous amount of machin
ery necessary to perform the world's
work.
The writer, as head of the depart
ment, has general oversight and
teaches mechanics. He also carries
for the civil engineering department
a general course in roads and pave
ments. Professor P. K. Slaymaker
teaches mechanics, machine design
and a course In architectural engineer
ing. Associate Professor J. E. Ras
musen has charge of the work fn' en
gineering drawing and descriptive
geometry; while Assistant Professor
C, E. Mickey, is fully employed with
applied mechanics and the testing of
road and building materials.
Architectural Engineering
A differentiation of the civil en
gineering group was deemed advisable
in view of the fact that much of the
work In the designing of modern build
ings is of an engineering rather than
of a purely architectural nature. An
architectural engineer should combine
the practical, reasoning, designing,
economic temperament of the engineer
with the artistic temperament of the
architect? but may with advantage
have more of the former than of th
latter. The course is also designed to
prepare men to become contractors
and constructors as well as designers.
Professor Slaymaker has given con
siderable thought and attention to this
group although It is logically placed
under the head of civil engineering.
CEOKGE R. CH ATBURN.
In
Observation
It is better to know the habits of
one plant than the names of a thou
sand, and wiser to be happily familiar
with those that grow in the nearest
field than arduously cognizant of all
that plume the Llej of the Pacific or
Illumine the mountains of the moon.
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