Engineering Science: An Inaugural Lecture on the Training for the Engineering Profession Delivered Before the University, Oct 16, 1908 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Jenkin, Charles Frewen

 
9781332236923: Engineering Science: An Inaugural Lecture on the Training for the Engineering Profession Delivered Before the University, Oct 16, 1908 (Classic Reprint)

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Similarly the engineering treatment of Dynamics differs considerably from the traditional one, but more mathematics is required for this subject. The aim of the teaching should be to make the student realize fully the motions and forces which he is discussing; for this end examples drawn from moving apparatus, which he can handle, are preferable to the classical examples of imaginary astronomical bodies. The subject may be fully illustrated in the laboratory by teaching the student to make accurate measurements of forces, velocities, and accelerations, using moving carriages and revolving wheels rather than pendulums. The experiments should beon a sufficient scale to make the student realize that he is dealing with real forces and weights, not chemists' balance weights, which are apt to blow away if he sneeze. Models may also be made to illustrate the theories being taught.'

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Excerpt from Engineering Science: An Inaugural Lecture on the Training for the Engineering Profession Delivered Before the University, Oct 16, 1908

Similarly the engineering treatment of Dynamics differs considerably from the traditional one, but more mathematics is required for this subject. The aim of the teaching should be to make the student realize fully the motions and forces which he is discussing; for this end examples drawn from moving apparatus, which he can handle, are preferable to the classical examples of imaginary astronomical bodies. The subject may be fully illustrated in the laboratory by teaching the student to make accurate measurements of forces, velocities, and accelerations, using moving carriages and revolving wheels rather than pendulums. The experiments should beon a sufficient scale to make the student realize that he is dealing with real forces and weights, not chemists' balance weights, which are apt to blow away if he sneeze. Models may also be made to illustrate the theories being taught.'

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Excerpt from Engineering Science: An Inaugural Lecture on the Training for the Engineering Profession Delivered Before the University, Oct 16, 1908

It is my high privilege and great happiness to be the first occupant of the new Chair which has been founded for the study and teaching of Engineering Science in this University.

The duties and responsibilities of the post are arduous, but I am encouraged by the bold faith that the work will be for the benefit of my profession, of the students, and of the University.

The success of the new school must depend greatly upon the interest and sympathy of the whole University; I have therefore, though with the greatest diffidence, ventured to take this opportunity, the first possible, of explaining our aims and objects - what Engineering Science really is - and how it will be taught here.

As the teaching at the University forms a part only of the whole education of an engineer, and must be made to harmonize with what has gone before and what follows, I have taken as my subject to-day the whole of the training for the engineering profession, but I shall speak very briefly of the earlier and later portions.

The Royal Charter granted by George IV to the Institution of Civil Engineers defines the profession of the Civil Engineer as the 'Art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man', and it then proceeds to enumerate a list of objects to which this art may be applied.

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9780267284887: Engineering Science: An Inaugural Lecture on the Training for the Engineering Profession Delivered Before the University, Oct 16, 1908 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10:  0267284888 ISBN 13:  9780267284887
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