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The following text-books have been used in our classes during the year : 

 Merriman & Jacoby's Roofs and Bridges, Vols. I, II, III ; Vedder's Notes 

 on Surveying; Daugherty's Hydraulics; Hancock's Mechanics; Baker's 

 Masonry Construction ; Harger and Bonney's Highway Engineer's Hand- 

 book; Turneaure and Russel's Public Water Supplies; Folwell's Sewer- 

 age; Hosmer's Astronomy; Tucker's Contracts in Engineering; Boyd's 

 Strength of Materials; Allen's Railroad Curves and Earthworks; Breed 

 and Hosmer's Surveying, Vols. 1, II; Ingram's Geodetic Surveying; 

 Blanchard and Browne's Highway Engineering. 



The total expenditure by the department during the year for all pur- 

 poses has be€n 19,081.26. During the same period the sum of |595.00 

 has been turned in for class and examination fees, and we have been 

 credited with |4.50 on inter-departmental requisitions. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. K. VEDDER, 



East Lansing, Mich., elune 30, 1917. 



Professor of Civil Engineering. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERING. 



President F. S. Kedzie, College. 



Dear Sir — The main effort of the department this year has been to 

 keep the usual classes in operation despite the lack of permanent 

 quarters. 



On Jan. 1st we began holding laboratory classes in the new building — 

 R. E. Olds Hall of Engineering — and since April 9 at the opening of the 

 spring term, have held all of our scheduled classes in this building. The 

 contractor, Mr. F. C. Trier, deserves our hearty thanks for allowing us to 

 use the first two floors while construction was going on. 



During the fall term we were unable to hold one laboratory class until 

 Dec. 1st, because of the lack of a building, but this was replaced by 

 a recitational course until room was provided ; otherwise the work of the 

 year has been carried out as per schedule — athough under disadvantages. 



Since the creation of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mr. 

 Cory and myself have been the only two salaried members. Jan. 1, 1917 

 Mr. W. S. Fox and Mr. H. J. Knowlton were employed by the month to 

 assist with the work. The former was engaged more particularly to 

 prepare apparatus that would be needed during the winter and spring 

 terms; the latter to assist with class work. 



At the faculty meeting in Dec. 1916, an increase in the number of 

 electrical options was authorized, which makes it possible for those wish- 

 ing to specialize in electrical work, to get more in that line than has 

 been included in the course heretofore. 



The elections of the sophomores this spring for next year as juniors, 

 indicated that this increase in the number of options is appreciated. 



During the spring term the department has been working with Mr. 

 D. A. Seeley in developing an electrical method of determining tem- 



