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of that year to be smaller, thus affocting the attendance materially 

 in the following years" and 



*'Thft decrease in attendance at engineering schools should have a 

 marked eflect on the salaries paid lo recent graduates. That this is 

 true is indicated by the fact that a large ninjorily of the schools who 

 have any information on the subject report a material increase ranging 

 from 10 to 50 per cent. A large number estimate that Ihe increase is 

 about 25 ])er cent." 



In this matter of attendance, the outlook at INT. A. C. is for increase. 

 The present enrollment of freshmen engineers is 10 per cent greater 

 than for the preceding year. Undoubtedly, the recent action of the 

 University of Michigan in increasing materially its tuilion fees to resi- 

 dents of the state will increase the enrollment in engineering at M. A. C. 



The teaching staff of the division consists of 32 persons. The salaries 

 paid are increasing slowly as appears from the comparison in Table II. 



TABLE II.— COMPARISON OF SALARIES IN DIVISION OF ENGINEERING, 1907-8, 1909- 



10 AND 1912-13. 

 Composition of staff. 



Average salaries. 



*See Report of Dean of Engineering for 1907-8. 



The present scale of salaries, combined with the lack of opportunity 

 for and encouragement in the prosecution of experimental and othei- 

 investigation work does not assure the retention of many of our promis- 

 ing men and makes others discontented. In this connection, I wish 

 again to recommend that the engineering experiment idea be made a 

 realization. 



This feature of engineering school work, once established would inure 

 to the mutual benefit of the state, college, division, and engineering 

 faculty and students. 



The professional degrees were recently conferred on eighteen graduates 

 of our engineering course. The conditions precedent to these degrees are 

 such as give them real significance, much more tlian the same degrees 

 conferred for w'ork in course. 



Our graduates are rapidly increasing in numbers and their standing 

 makes it not at all difficult to find many who. at the suggestion, can 

 qualify for these degrees. 



