DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 61 



order to meet the constantly enlarging- responsibilities of the engineering 

 profession," to make ''an advance in engineering education" hy providing 

 "five years of collegiate training for those engineering students whose aim 

 is to become qualified to take positions among the creative leaders in the 

 profession," and to this end it was recommended that changes in present 

 curricula be made substantially as follows : 



1. Eemodel the present four year engineering curricula by substituting 



a substantial proportion of hunumistic and fundamental subjects 

 in place of an equivalent amount of advanced technical work. It 

 is desirable that, so far as possible the curricula in the different 

 branches of engineering shall be sufflciently uniform to permit 

 students to defer their final choice of a specialty at least to the end 

 of the second year. 



2. Add a fifth year of advanced work, mostly or wholl}' technical, and 



specialized to such an extent as desired. 



3. The first four years of work shall lead to a bachelor's degree and the 



fifth year to an advanced degree in engineering. 

 I agree to the principles above set forth and am supported in this by my 

 colleagues on the Engineering Committee, and we are all of the opinion 

 that the new courses in Engineering Administration, the establishment of 

 Avhich anticipated the Chicago conference, go far in the direction pointed 

 out by that conference. 



FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OP ENGINEERING AT M. A. C. 



In order that the instructional work in engineering be properly stimu- 

 lating to teaching staff and students and in order that the College, through 

 its engineering departments shall render maximum sendee to the State 

 and to the Nation, it is important and uecesisary that research work be 

 undertaken and consummated by us in certain fields of applied science and 

 engineering art relevant to the several lines of instruction offered and 

 pertinent to the industrial needs of the times. 



Such work can be initiated and promoted by : 



1. Graduate assistant-ships. 



2. Investigations by members of the staff, so gifted, Avho should be en- 



encouraged by lightened teaching schedules and the opportunities 

 now offered for degree- work. 



3. The appointment from time to time of full time research men. 



4. Specialized rather than all-round teaching duties. 



5. Organic connections between the College and the State departments 



and with industrial and municipal organizations desiring techncial 

 information but lacking facilities for obtaining it. 



6. The establishment of an Engineering Experiment Station. This type 



of organized investigation work is especially appropriate for land 

 grant institutions and has already been established in the following 

 states with definite annual budgets (as of 1921-22) : 



