The Kansas Engineer Volume 1-5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...in the department of fine arts. Engineering economics is taught by Dean Walker since the departure of Professor Millis; Mr. McCarty has gone to the department of athletics and the freshman rhetoric classes are in charge of Mr. M. L. Hanley. SUMMER FIELD COURSE IN GEOLOGY. If eight students can be found who will take it, a field course in geology and mineralogy (5-hr. credit) will be given during the summer. The course will include the study of rock formations in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado, and mining conditions at Leadville. The party will leave Lawrence June 11 and will stop at several places in Kansas, then go on to Denver. They will study and map the formations about Denver and in the Denver Basin. Then they will go to Colorado Springs and study the formations there in the same way. From here the party will go to Manitou, Canyon City, and probably Leadville. In these last two places the ore-deposits will be the main features of study and the students will see how the mineral is treated in the smelters and concentration plants. Some of the students have suggested buying Fords and making the trip in them. This method would probably be as economical as going by train, and the Fords could be used to good advantage on the smaller trips that are to be made after the party reaches Colorado. The cost of such a trip will probably be somewhat more than $100 per student. THESES. At least twenty-five theses are being prepared in the School of Engineering this spring, by the seniors, as a part of their required courses. Many interesting subjects are being investigated. In the civil department two students are making an investigation of the deposit of silt in the Kansas River bed. Four others are investigating the pressure of sand and other...