A College-Factory Engineering Course 



A plan for combining college prep- 

 aration with factory experience 



The student takes his place 

 regularly beside the other 

 workmen in the factory 



BY combining their 

 regular Univer- 

 sity studies with 

 shopwork in the fac- 

 tories, shops and engi- 

 neering plants of the 

 city, the Cincinnati Uni- 

 versity has worked out a 

 practical scheme for the 

 training of engineers. Under 

 this co-operative plan, which 

 has been in force for several 

 years, the engineering student 

 spends half of his time in shop 

 and half in school. In the 

 factory he takes his place be- 

 side the regular machinist; or other work- 

 man, and becomes an actual producer. If 

 he is a student of mechanical 

 engineering he will probably 

 be put into a foundry as a 

 helper or in charge of a 

 simple machine tool. Im- 

 mediately he becomes a 

 regular employee, sub- 

 ject to all the shop rules 

 and regulations, being 

 paid for his services the 

 same as any other man 

 doing the same kind of 

 work. 



There are two students 

 for each job. One man 

 goes to the University 



He alternates two weeks in 

 the shop with two in school 



As the school work advances in grade 

 the shop-work also progresses according 

 to a prearranged plan of instruction 



No Latin and Greek, no 

 desks, but they are going 

 to college just the same 



for two weeks, while 

 the other man, called 

 an "alternate," works 

 at his bench in the 

 shop. Then at the end 

 of each two-weeks 

 period, the alternates 

 switch about; the student 

 becomes a workman, and 

 the workman a student. 

 The course is completed in 

 five years. As the student ad- 

 vances in school from year to 

 year, his shopwork likewise 

 progresses according to a pre- 

 arranged plan. For instance, 

 a first year student who begins in a foundry, 

 machine shop or power plant, will, during 

 his fifth year, be engaged 

 in designing, estimating, pro- 

 duction, or other work of a 

 higher grade. A representa- 

 tive of the University, usually 

 a head professor, looks after 

 the interests of the students 

 in the shop, and sees to it 

 that they get the proper ex- 

 perience under proper 

 conditions. 



The college work in- 

 cludes the usual studies 

 that go to make up a 

 regular four-year theo- 

 retical course. 



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