DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 09 



Tables I, II and III show the distribution and amount of the teach- 

 ing duties among the members of the staff. Mr. Chappelle has resigned 

 and Mr. C. C. Wilcox has been promoted to the position of foreman 

 of the machine shop. The increase in space available for the shop work 

 upon the completion of Engineering Hall was very timely and has been 

 fully utilized. 



To provide for the inevitalde increased demands of the near future, 

 additional space will be reouired and it should be provided by an en- 

 tire new set of shop buildings. Of all the improvements in the work 

 of the department made possible by the new building the most marked 

 is in the provision for engineering laboratory work. In connection 

 with the other engineering departments similarly benehtted, the engineer- 

 ing laboratory facilities of the college are now on something like a 

 satisfactory footing. The portion of the general subject allotted to this 

 department is provided for in rooms fi and 112 in the new building and 

 the work is in charge of Mr. Poison. 



Room 6 contains a 100,000 lbs. motor-driven Riehle Universal Auto- 

 matic Testing Machine and other apj)aratus for the testing of materials, 

 apparatus for fuel calorimetry, and the cabinets for the instruments 

 used in the engine laboratory. 



Room 112. designated as the engine laboratory, contains 3 simple, 1 

 comv)ound, and 1 Corliss engine, 1 steam turbine, 1 duplex steam pump, 

 each fitted with independent surface condenser and prony brake or other 

 device for measuring out-put; gas and hot engines, injectors, calibra- 

 tion apparatus for indicators, gauges, etc.; experimental hot blast venti- 

 lating apparatus, Avater motors, etc., all connected up permanently and 

 ready for use on short notice. Steam at from 90 to 150 lbs. pressure 

 is supplied through an underground main from the college power house. 



Boiler tests are made in the college power house. 



Believing that shop work and machine design are essentially coordi- 

 nate subjects, they have been placed in charge of one member of the 

 staff. Assistant Professor Appleyard. The idea is not new, having been 

 embodied hitherto in the practice of Mr. Leonard for several years. 



The extensive experience of Mr. A. C. Mehrtens in gas engine prac- 

 tice has made it possible to offer courses in gas engine theory and 

 design adoption in the general subject of machine design. 



In the revised course of study shop work will be uniformly eight hours 

 work per week in all terms for the purpose of simplifying the keeping 

 of records and the construction of the program of work for each term. 



It would be desirable to arrange so that the shop work quota of 

 eight hours could be given to each student in a continuous period ex- 

 cept for a recess at noon, but at present there are serious difficulties 

 in the way. 



Courses in heating and ventilation, power station design and busi- 

 ness methods have been introduced experimentally with results so en- 

 couraging as to warrant them as i)ermanent features of the course. 



The theoretical work in Strength of Materials has been transferred 

 to the civil engineering department, since it is really a ])art of the 

 general subject of analytical mechanics already taught by that depart- 

 ment. 



