Housing and Equipping the Department. The department today is provided with the following rooms in the new Home Economies and University Extension building: 1 Lecture room, 1 Class room, 2 Food laboratories, 2 Applied chemistry laboratories, 1 Dietetic laboratory with practice kitchen and dining room adjoining, 1 Weaving laboratory, A Textile laboratory, A Dressmaking laboratory, A House Architecture and House Decoration laboratory, 1 Applied Arts laboratory. In the Practice Cottage there are the following rooms with equipment: Living room, Library, Dining room, Kitchen, Laundry, Store room, Registering students in anywhere from two to four different home economics classes means that space in laboratories is at a premium. In lecture rooms we have been, and wil be, very much handicapped as the one large lecture room is seated for 237 only, and the art and design apartments, where at present there is a lecture room, will in the next two years be required for laboratory classes. Aside from these there are two class rooms seating 24 each. Thus, what two years ago, when the new building should have been ready for occupancy, seemed adequate lecture room is now a limited space for even the present requirements. Unless there is a marked decrease in percentage gain, the Home Economies and University Extension building will not meet the needs of the department for more than the coming biennium. The Home Economics and University Extension departments are expanding rapidly; therefore there is already need for planning additional room which must be met either by building the new wing or constructing an entirely new building for the Extension Department. The latter solution is, in the opinion of your Director, the more advisable because it will meet the needs of both departments at a minimum of expense. There is need of space and equipment in the department for smaller laboratories for advanced and research work in dietetics, textiles, household management, etc. In the matter of office rooms the number is such that there are, with but three exceptions, from two to three instructors in each room. This crowding prevents such close supervision and friendship with students as is advisable for character development, as will be readily understood by anyone who realizes the handicap which the presence of a third person places upon young students who come for a conference. The Practice Cottage which is equipped to provide a laboratory in which dietary and house management studies may be made more nearly practical, is now inadequate to meet the present demand. A dietary study should continue from five to seven days and yet the number of students is such that three days is all that each group may remain in residence. A practice suite should be placed in the Home Economics building to meet this demand. The present laboratories will suffice for space for only two years more reckoning on the most conservative growth along old lines. One of the new courses, Institutional Management, organized during the last two years, has proved so valuable, and the demand for practical laboratory work is so imperative, that having, in the opinion of the Steward of the University Commons, outgrown the opportunity for practice in connection with the central kitchen and dining rooms, it becomes necessary to plan some other place to be used as a practice laboratory. Five years ago the department was asked by a group of Short Course men to give some help in solving the living problem, at least in the way of wholesome food. It was promised then that in the future, if possi ble, a dining room would be planned much on the lines of the one in the Kansas Agricultural College where students in Institutional Management and in the short courses could plan, purchase, prepare, and serve the meals to the men taking the college work. In either the basement of the central part of the Home Economics and University Extension building or in the basement of the proposed new wing there could be organized such a dining room, service room, and kitchen which in size and equipment would meet the needs for the students in institutional management; and, if such a course is organized, the students in the short course in home economics could use it. Your Director feels keenly that the need of increasing the staff, the housing and equipment of the department which has shown the largest growth of any in the University in the past five years merits the attention and the generosity of the state. Respectfully submitted, A. L. MARLATT, Director, Course in Home Economics. REPORT OF THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING President Charles R. Van Hise, The University of Wisconsin. Dear Sir: I herewith submit my report as Dean of the College of Engineering for the biennial period from 1912–14. FACULTY During the past two years there have been an unusual number of changes in the instructional staff, especially among the members of professorial rank. To the great regret of the faculty and alumni, C. F. Burgess, Professor of Chemical Engineering, who had been a teacher in the University for twenty-one years, resigned his professorship in 1913 in order to devote his entire time to professional engineering practice. The Department of Chemical Engineering has been placed in charge of Associate Professor O. L. Kowalke. W. D. Pence, Professor of Railway Engineering, was appointed in 1913 as a member of the board of engineers created by the Inter-state Commerce Commission to aid it in determining the value of the railway property of the United States. Professor Pence was granted leave of absence for the year 1913-14, and again for the year 1914-15, in the hope that at the expiration of this time he would decide to return to the University. While greatly regretting the absence of Professor Pence, the University may well feel honored by his selection for this important work. During the absence of Professor Pence, Assistant Professor L. F. Van Hagan has charge of the Railway Engineering Department. C. C. Thomas, Professor of Steam and Gas Engineering, resigned his position in the summer of 1913 to accept the professorship of the new Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Professor H. J. Thorkelson has been placed in charge of this department. F. T. Havard, Associate Professor of Metallurgy, who had been with us about four years, was taken from us by death in the spring of 1913. Although he had been connected with the college a comparatively short time his work had come to be highly valued and his loss is greatly felt. To fill this vacancy Richard S. McCaffery, formerly Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Idaho, was appointed Professor of Metallurgy in February 1914. In 1912 Assistant Professor George J. Davis, Jr., of the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, resigned to accept the position of Dean of the Engineering Department at the University of Alabama. This place was filled by the appointment of Assistant Professor C. I. Corp, previously a member of the faculty of the University of Kansas. Is 1913 Associate Professor Edward Bennett of the Electrical Engineering Department was promoted to a full professorship. In the same year Mr. R. C. Disque, instructor in electrical engineering, and Mr. J. B. Kommers, instructor in mechanics, were promoted to assistant professorships in these departments. In addition to the above mentioned changes, there have been resignations of a number of high grade instructors for the purpose of accepting positions elsewhere at larger salaries. ATTENDANCE The attendance in the College of Engineering for the past five years has been practically stationary, varying in this period. from a maximum of 807 in 1910-11 to a minimum of 678 in 1912-13. In 1913-14 the attendance numbered 738. A condition of practically stationary attendance has been common in engineering schools throughout the country for the past few years. Some schools show a small decrease and others a small increase. Considering the very rapid increase in the number of engineering graduates, which took place during the ten years preceding 1908, and the lessened activity in new enterprises which has now existed for the past two or three years, it is to be expected that the attendance in engineering schools should show fairly stationary conditions. In some directions there have been new or increased demands for technical men. This is notably true in the |