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DESCRIPTION OF UNDERGRADUATE AND FIFTH-YEAR COURSES 131
training required by the engineer who is to do creative work in
his field.
The four-year Course in Engineering includes an unusually
thorough training in physics and mathematics, and instruction
in chemistry and geology; also extended courses, continuing
throughout the four years, in humanistic studies, including English
writing and speaking, literature, evolutionary science, history
of civilization, current social and political problems, and
economics; and, finally, those engineering subjects common to
all branches of engineering, such as surveying, mechanism,
descriptive geometry, machine drawing, applied mechanics, engineering
materials, hydraulics, and preliminary courses in civil,
mechanical, and electrical engineering.
The fifth-year Courses in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and
Aeronautical Engineering consist mainly of the engineering subjects
that are fundamental in these separate branches of engineering_
Thus the Civil Engineering Course deals largely with
the analysis, design and construction of structures, railways, and
water systems; the Mechanical Engineering Course, with machine
design, steam and gas engineering, and power-plant design
and operation; the Electrical Engineering Course with the generation
and transmission of electric power; and the Aeronautical
Engineering Course with the principles of aerodynamics, the
design and construction of airplanes, their engines and instruments.
Of all these Courses, engineering research or design
forms an important part.
THE COURSES IN SCIENCE
The Courses in Science prepare for those scientific and engineering
professions in which an intensive training in the basic
sciences and in research is of more importance than a knowledge
of the principles and practice of engineering. Accordingly, the
four-year Course in Science, while including the same historical,
literary and economic subjects as the Course in Engineering,