DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 67 



were able to continue the work in the Metallurgical courses formerly carried 

 by Mr. Hildorf. 



In order to take care of the new optional courses in the senior year, Mr. 

 V. W. Hewlett was appointed to take charge of the courses in Automotive 

 Engineering. Before coming to M. A. C, Mr. Hewlett had charge of auto- 

 motive courses at Pennsylvania State College. 



The death of Mr. Andrew Watt on March 14th, following an operation took 

 from our teaching staff another member whose work was always well done, 

 and whose personality was such as to make his loss very noticeable. Mr. B. 

 Sangster, formerly tool-room attendant in the Farm Mechanics department, 

 however, has proved an able successor to Mr. Watt, and the work of the forge 

 shop is being well taken care of, especially so, as Mr. Sangster has had experi- 

 ence both in agricultural and engineering work. 



As in the past two years, assistance was again given the Farm Mechanics 

 department in the teaching of several courses in the Truck and Tractor short 

 course. Instruction was given in Forge Shop and the equipment of the de- 

 partment was used in the course in Ignition and Lighting, Truck Engines and 

 Carburetion. 



In the summer school courses were offered in the Wood Shop, Forge Shop 

 and Machine Shop, but with the exception of a week's instruction to Manual 

 Training teachers in the Wood Shop, the Machine Shop courses were the only 

 ones in which students were enrolled. Here thirteen students were registered 

 in three courses. 



The principal new equipment obtained during the year consists of two 

 electric motors, which have been placed in the machine shop to drive some of 

 the government machine tools, purchased last year. In order to make use of 

 all the machine tools purchased it will be necessary to acquire several more 

 motors, In addition to the above motor requirements, we are in particular 

 need of another Universal testing machine in the materials testing laboratory, 

 dynamometers for testing automotive equipment, and a switch board for the 

 Turbo-Generator. The latter is necessary not only for a proper installation, 

 but also for emergency use in furnishing current to the College in case of a 

 breakdown in the College Power House. 



The optional courses of the senior year, which were given for the first time, 

 were divided among the 23 seniors as follows: Automotive Engineering, 7 

 men; Steam Engineering, 2 men; Industrial Engineering, 14 men. Several 

 of the men, however, having advance credits, took courses in more than one 

 group. The Industrial and Automotive groups are closely allied, and the 

 fact that most of the seniors chose these groups was no doubt due to the posi- 

 tion which the State holds in these lines and therefore of the probable demand 

 there would be for men who had specialized along these lines. 



I wish to express my appreciation of the work of the various members of 

 the department, during the past year and wish especially to acknowledge the 

 work of Mr. Wright in organizing the new courses in Industrial Engineering. 



The teaching schedule for the year is shown in the tables that follow : 



