Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Volume 12American Society for Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.) Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education., 1905 |
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1904 Professor Agricultural ALBERT KINGSBURY Anson Marston Assistant Professor Brown University calculus catalogue CHARLES chemistry Civil Engineering committee Consulting coöperation Cornell University DATE OF MEMBERSHIP Dean discussion Electrical Engineering engi engineering college engineering course engineering education engineering schools engineering students experience faculty field gineering give given graduates important Institute of Technology instruction instructors Iowa State College Jacoby laboratory large number lege Lehigh University Machine Design MANSFIELD MERRIMAN Mass Massachusetts Massachusetts Institute mathematics matter MCNAIR Mechanical Engineering ment methods mining engineers NAME AND ADDRESS Naval Academy neering Ohio paper Physics practice preparation President principles problems profession Professor of Civil Professor of Electrical Professor of Mathematics Professor of Mechanical PROFESSOR SPERR Purdue University question railroad rience Secretary Society surveying teaching technical schools text-books tion unit University of Minnesota Waddell WILLIAM writer
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Page 85 - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 9 - Committee, and that the other members of the Committee be appointed by the incoming President.
Page 2 - RULES GOVERNING THE COUNCIL. First. The officers of the Society shall constitute a committee to arrange the time and place of the annual meeting, and also to prepare a programme for the same.
Page 165 - The spelling throughout the examination will be considered in marking the papers. The Academic Board are instructed not to reject a candidate whose only deficiency is in spelling when the mark therefor is above a certain figure, to be fixed by the board, subject to the revision of the department. Punctuation and Capitals.— They must be familiar with the rules for punctuation and for the use of capitals. In order to test their knowledge, sentences will be given for correction.
Page 3 - The report of the Secretary was read and accepted. The report of the Treasurer was read and...
Page 166 - GEOGRAPHY. — Candidates will be required to pass a satisfactory examination in descriptive geography, particularly of our own country. Questions will be given under the following heads: The definitions of latitude and longitude (including problems with regard to differences of time between places); the zones; the grand divisions of land and water; the character of coast lines; the climate of different parts of the United States; trade winds; the direction and position of important mountain chains...
Page 168 - ... percentage, interest and discount. The candidates are required to possess such a thorough understanding of all the fundamental operations of arithmetic as will enable them to apply the various principles to the solution of any complex problem that can be solved by the methods of arithmetic; in other words, they must possess such a complete knowledge of arithmetic as will enable them to proceed at once to the higher branches of mathematics without further study of arithmetic.
Page 169 - Algebra. — Factors, common divisors and multiples, fractions, equations of the first degree with one or more unknown quantities, involution including the...
Page 169 - Plane geometry. — Candidates will be required to give accurate definitions of the terms used in plane geometry, to demonstrate any proposition of plane geometry as given in the ordinary textbooks, and to solve simple geometric problems either by a construction or by an application of algebra.