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The importance of this gradute work to professional engineers. cannot be over-estimated, and all the departments of the college are directing special attention to it. During the coming year the following major subjects will be offered to graduates in the several departments:

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.

CIVIL ENGINEERING-Advanced work in geodesy and practical Astronomy.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING-Machine design; experimental investigations.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-Advanced laboratory work; original investigations; design and testing of light and power plants. MINING AND METALLURGY-The Mesabi iron ores and their treatment; other special subjects on approval.

CHEMISTRY-Special problems involving original research in chemistry and meeting the approval of the officers of the department.

PHYSICS—(a) Any line of undergraduate work which has not been taken by the student as an undergraduate. (b) Special problems in electricity and heat; (c) investigations in mechanics and optics for those qualified.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY-(a) Studies on the crystalline rocks of Minnesota and neighboring states; (b) Paleontological researches in the areas of Cambrain and Lower Silurian rocks in the northwest.

SCHOOL OF DESIGN—(a) The history of decorative art; (b) Original composition in ornamental design.

It is intended to give to advanced students in art who desire to pursue their studies in the history of art and into the field of original design, a good opportunity to secure the criticism and assistance in their studies which this school affords.

A number of Fellowships are being raised in this college, one of which will be offered for the coming year. Graduates of universities where technical courses of recognized standing are offered, are eligible as candidates. Those who desire can learn particulars by corresponding with Professor Hoag or Professor Shepardson.

THE SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS,

is a flourishing organization, holding meetings every Saturday at 1 p. m. for discussion of topics of current interest, hearing reports and lectures from members of the faculty and others. Arrangements have been made for the publication of a Yearbook of the society, which shall statedly present the progress of the engineering departments and the original work done during each year.

LIBRARIES AND READING ROOMS.

The reference libraries within reach of the students of this college are rapidly becoming valuable. The files of the serial publications in the different fields of engineering, architecture, mining, metallurgy and chemistry are nearly all complete, notably the following:

Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; Engineering and Mining Journal; The Chemical News; Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry; American Chemical Journal; Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army; reports of the Weather Bureau, U. S. Signal Service; Journal of the Franklin Institute; Reports of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; School of Mines Quarterly; The Engineering Magazine; The Colliery Engineer, and Mineral Resources of the United States.

The standard works bearing on special subjects are secured as they appear.

Connected with the several departments are reading rooms in which are the leading periodicals relating to the particular lines of work. The whole number of files in the college accessible to all students cannot be less than one hundred. This number includes many donated by the societies publishing them and others loaned by members of the faculty, who at all times place both their periodical lists and their entire professional libraries at the disposition of the students.

TECHNICAL ESSAYS AND THESES.

TECHNICAL ESSAYS. Four technical essays are required of each student, one each term beginning with the first term of junior year. The first and second may be translations of professional articles from the French and German engineering and technical periodicals. In the preparation of these translations the subject must be approved by the professor in charge, and the language must be accurate and idiomatic English. The third and fourth essays shall embody the results of the personal investigations of the writer, for instance: critical discussions of the views of the authors of technical papers or new technical books; the scientific description of some new machinery or manufacturing plant; a professional report upon some railroad survey, industrial works, mine or metallurgical plant.

THESES. Each member of the senior class in this college in addition to the final examination must prepare a thesis on some subject particularly relating to his course. This paper must con

tain some original research made by the student himself; it must bear merits as a technical paper and must be creditable as a specimen of literary work.

The thesis shall be written or printed and a copy deposited in the library of the University. The subject of the thesis must be announced to the head of the department in which the student is a candidate for a degree and the work of preparation be formally begun at the beginning of the second term of Senior year.

The subject of the thesis and the character of the work done upon it will be suggested in large measure by the course of study pursued by the candidate. Great emphasis is laid upon the careful and accurate preparation of the thesis, because, more than any other work the undergraduate does, this certifies to his ability to undertake the difficult and responsible duties involved in the direction of engineering and industrial interests.

The thesis must be completed and put in the hands of the Faculty as early as the senior examination week of the third term.

THE GILLETTE-HERZOG PRIZES.

THE GILLETTE-HERZOG MANUFACTURING COMPANY offer for competition, by the students of the college of Engineering, Metallurgy and the Mechanic Arts, two annual prizes, viz:

A FIRST CASH PRIZE OF FIFTY DOLLARS accompanied by a GOLD MEDAL.

A SECOND CASH PRIZE OF THIRTY DOLLARS accompanied by a GOLD MEDAL, under the following conditions:

1. The subjects admitted:

I. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING is such branches as engine and machine construction and design; heating systems as applied to large manufacturing plants; general construction and arrangement of ideal manufacturing plants to show most economical construction of buildings, most advantageous arrangement of machinery and most expeditious handling of work.

II. ARCHITECTURAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING as seen in the construction of fire proof buildings, and iron and steel structures generally. The efficiency of cast iron, wrought iron and steel columns should be compared. This subject should also include the construction of iron and steel roofs and trusses, girders, etc.

III. CIVIL ENGINEERING as in bridge construction; e. g. the design of a swing bridge with a discussion of the whole question of strains.

IV. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING particularly in the electric lighting of manufacturing plants and the use of electric motors in such plants.

2. While the competition is open primarily to seniors in Mechanical, Architectural, Civil and Electrical Engineering, special circumstances may make it advisable to admit graduate students in these departments to the competition.

3. The names of ten (10) students selecting suitable subjects shall be presented in good faith as signifying their intention to compete for the prizes before the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company shall be bound to declare the prizes open for competition.

Further, the Gillette-Herzog manufacturing company and the President of the University shall name the board to adjudge prizes; prizes may be withheld if the theses and designs are of insufficient merit; the judges shall keep the practical usefulness of the theses in mind; honorable mention may be made of any thesis; each thesis accompanied by its designs shall be handed in without the name of the writer or any designating mark, and all theses shall be presented in duplicate, one copy becoming the property of the University and the other of the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company.

The prizes awarded under the first annual offer in 1892 were as follows:

FIRST PRIZE to Leo Goodkind, for a design of a fire-proof building with steel skeleton frame.

SECOND PRIZE to James A. Gill, for a design of a high speed Corliss engine.

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