1. The College of Engineering, offering courses in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, fire protection engineering, and archi

tecture.

2. The Armour Scientific Academy.

3. The Evening Classes.

The courses in the College of Engineering are each four years in length, and lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science. The Scientific Academy provides Courses of three and four years, which prepare students to enter the College of Engineering of Armour Institute of Technology, or the leading universities and colleges. The Evening Classes offer courses in engineering which are especially adapted to the needs of those who are employed during the day and cannot avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by day classes. Many correspondence school students are now availing themselves of the opportunity for work in the laboratories, shops, and drafting rooms.

The Armour Institute of Technology is especially proud of its equipment, and although it is impossible here to enumerate and describe the apparatus and machinery, suffice it to say that money and pains have not been spared in securing the latest and most approved appliances. In the main building of the Institute are located the departments of Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineer

stands pre-eminently as a school of engineering.

The present plan of organization includes:

ing, Chemical Engineering, and the Steam Engine, hydraulic and testing laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In all departments the effort is made to educate an engineer practically as well as theoretically, and it is with this point in view that the different laboratories have been equipped.

The Electrical Engineering Department is especially well equipped for work in electrical units and measurements; and during the first years of his course, the student gets splendid practical training in testing and calibrating instruments of various kinds. The Dynamo Laboratory has been fitted up with especial reference. to the study of electrical machinery from a commercial, as well as a theoretical, standpoint. The dynamos, motors, and transformers represent the most advanced ideas in the choice of material, design, and construction. There are twenty dynamos and motors, representing ten standard types. The plant furnishing power has a capacity of 2,400 amperes direct and 500 amperes alternating current. The driving of the laboratory machinery by motors gives a wide range of speeds as well as a very close adjustment of the same. The A. C. power available is 25-, 66-, and 133-cycle single-phase alternating; and by varying the prime movers, all intermediate cyclic speeds can be obtained. Provision is made for 25- and 60-cycle 2- and 3-phase power and 60cycle 6-phase; and the laboratory, on the completion of a specially designed machine, will also have 133-cycle 2- and 3-phase power; 2- and 3-phase rotary converters, synchronous and induction motors, are provided, all of them ranging from 10 to 20 H. P. The equipment includes both the openand closed-coil types of arc dynamos. The transformer list ranges from 1 to 20 K. W. capacity. Provision is also made for high-potential insulation tests. For this purpose the Institute is provided with one transformer giving 40,000 volts, and with one giving 100,000 volts, of 25 K. W. capacity.

In connection with the regular laboratory work, each student is required to take practical charge of the Institute plant for a certain length of time, to

are studied through inspections of large manufacturing firms located in the city. In no city in the country, with the possible exception of New York, can such a wide variety of gigantic electrical applications be found as in Chicago. These visits are made for the purpose of gathering data for dynamo, motor, and station design, and also in order to acquaint the student with the general application of electrical power. This advantage is thoroughly appreciated by the students of the Armour Institute of Technology.

The Institute offers exceptional facilities for the study of Civil Engineering. Its location in Chicago enables its instructors to increase the value of their instruction by the examination and study of important structures. The study of bridge engineering and structural work combines both the theory of stresses and Probactual practice in designing.

lems in design are worked out, details are carefully considered, the shop cost of different kinds of details is discussed, and careful attention is given to true economy in design. Emphasis is put upon the practical side of municipal engineering; surveys of towns are taken by the stu

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dents, or from notes from surveys in the instructors' practice; and actual designs of sewerage and water-works systems made. Paving and street improvements are handled in a similar manner. cost of different classes of work is discussed, and estimates of cost made of systems designed. Lectures are given from time to time by practicing engineers of prominence in their specialty.

The progress made along the lines of industrial chemistry for the past few years has created a demand for a class of technically trained men who are not only chemists, but engineers as well. In 1901 a course in Chemical Engineering was established which gives a thorough training in all branches of chemistry, and also includes enough of the studies in engineering to enable the graduate to cope successfully with the problems of the industrial world. The chemical laboratories are well equipped, and every effort has been made to secure the latest and most approved apparatus for the practical as well as the theoretical side of this most important science.

In response to urgent requests from insurance companies, architects and contractors, a course in Fire Protection Engineering was inaugurated at the opening of the college year in Septem-. ber, 1903. This course is four years in length, and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. Through the courtesy of the Board of Directors of the Underwriters' Laboratories, the technical laboratory work of this course will be given at the Underwriters' Laboratories, 67 East 21st street, Chicago. These laboratories, maintained by the stock fire insurance companies, are peculiarly well fitted for the work, because all new devices, appliances, and materials that enter into the question of fire protection or have a bearing on the fire hazard, are taken. there to be tested. The records of that institution already cover the reports of more than two thousand tests and experiments in this special field. A feature of this course is a series of lectures by prominent insurance officials, architects, and contractors, upon the practical character of their work.

The aim of the Mechanical Engineering course is to lay a foundation of sound theory, sufficiently broad and deep to en

The laboratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department, with the exception of the Gas Engine laboratory, are situated in the basement of the main building, and include the following: Steam Engine laboratory, testing laboratory, hydraulic laboratory, cement-testing laboratory, and oil-testing laboratory. The Steam Engine laboratory comprises four 250-H. P. handfired Sterling boilers, and one 350H. P. Sterling boiler, with Greene traveling grate, a 9 x 12 x 24 cross compound-condensing Corliss engine, with double eccentrics and reheater receiver, built by the Allis-Chalmers Company; a 70-H. P. Russell automatic high-speed engine, a 300-H. P. Ball & Wood direct-connected engine, a 7x9x

100-ton Riehlé testing machine, a 30-ton Olsen, a 10-ton Riehlé, a Thurston autographic torsion machine, an Olsen 4,000foot-pound torsion machine, a 2,000pound Riehlé cement machine, a Fairbanks field cement machine, a 2,000pound Olsen wire-testing machine, extensometers, and other instruments used in connection with the testing of all materials of construction, two transmission dynamometers, a traction dynamometer, a belt-testing machine, and an impacttesting machine.

The following apparatus has recently been added to the Hydraulic Laboratory: One Marsh steam pump, one 120-gallon

tor, stem traps, small pumps, and other miscellaneous apparatus. The cementand oil-testing laboratories are equally well equipped.

Across from the main building, on the north side of Thirty-third street, stands the new Machinery Hall, the gift of Mrs. Philip D. Armour. The building was erected in 1902. It is four stories in height, and built of brick and stone to conform with the general appearance of the main building. The basement contains the office of the Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and the Gas Engine laboratory. The remainder of the basement is used for