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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TABLE 3.— CLASS WORK OF DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINO-SPRING TERM, 1920. 



EEPOET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERIN^G. 



President F. S. Kedzie, East Lansing, Mich. 



My Dear President Kedzie : — Tlie snmmer of l!>i!) was the tirst one in 

 which the Department of Electrical Engineering participated in the sum- 

 mer school TX'ork. It was the last of the war tangle in onr educational 

 work ; noAv Ave have the aftermath. 



I am not sure that the faculty acted a\ isely in broadening the 

 scope of engineering education at this institution last year, when we 

 offered more options in the departments and began a differentiation 

 further down in the course. However, we are pledged to it for a while. 



This department gives instruction in electrical subjects to every en- 

 gineering student Avho survives the sophomore year. I think the year 

 just closed has been the best in the history of the department — the sup- 

 plementary activities such as work in the local branch of the American 

 Institute of Electrical lilugineers serves to stimulate the students to 

 better work. The students themselves take quite an active part in provid- 

 ing the department with needed apparatus Avhich can be assembled by 

 them. 



In this department we shall continue to adhere to the idea of a strong 

 fundamental course in direct current work in the junior year and a 

 strong fundamental course in alternating currents in the senior j^ear 

 supplemented all along by work in advanced physics, known in our course 

 as Electrical Measurements and introduced in the catalogue under Elec- 

 trical Engineering, 14, J4b, 15, and 16, 



