TECHNICAL REVIEW.
Six miles of the transpacific cable
which lies within the three mile limit
below lowtide mark, has been taxed
by the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
The court declares its taxable value
at $16,000.
A Berlin firm has invented a new
form of incandescent lamp. The
filament is made of tantalum and is
said to have a much higher effi
ciency than the ordinary carbon fila
ment.
A milliampere meter has been put
on the market. It is constructed
after the D’Arsonval type and
measures accurately current in the
secondary spark of a Ruhmkorff in
due tion coil. The meter is also
adapted to measure current from an
ordinary static machine.
Important Advance Step in the
College of Engineering.
At the meeting of the regents De
cember 13, in accordance with the
recommendations of the faculty, five
and six year courses were adopted
in engineering, which provide for the
addition to the technical engineering
work of a large number of elective
studies in other colleges. The pur
pose of such courses is to broaden
the training for engineers, and thus
make them better all-round men, as
well as better professional men. It
is proposed to publish in the cata
logue five and six year courses in
civil engineering, mechanical engi
neering, and electrical engineeiing,
which in four years will lead to the
degree of Bachelor of Science in
General Engineering; in five years
will lead to the degree of Bachelor
of Science in the special engineering
courses, and which in six years will
lead to the professional degrees of
Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer,
and Electrical Engineer.. Under this
broad arrangement for election of
work in the other colleges by engi
neering students, various type
courses will be built up; one of
which will be a combination of engi
neering studies and studies in the
courses in commerce.
At Wisconsin there is a very ex
ceptional opportnnity to develop
technical training of a higher grade
than that anywhere now obtainable,
since there are in the University four
strongly developed colleges, i. e.,
the College of Letters and Science,
the College of Agriculture, the Col
lege of Engineeing, and the College
ot Law. No such combination ex
ists in any privately endowed uni
versity in the United States, and on
ly one or two state universities have
all of the colleges strongly developed
at one place, thus placing them in a
position to move tor higher tech
nical training. Many combinations
could be made of work in the var
ious colleges which would result in
such higher training, but the par
ticular combination mentioned, that
of engineering and commerce, illus
trates the advantage of the combina
tion courses. An excellent com
bination course of this kind is possi
ble, by reason of Wisconsin’s strong
engineering and commercial courses.
At the present time engineers are
demanded for the higher grade po
sitions who not only Know engineer
ing but also know business. A rail
road president recently said: “We
can get an indefinite number of one
thousand dollar men, comparatively
few three thousand and five thousand
dollar men, and no fifteen thousand
dollar men, ” i. e., men wtio are
capable ot handling business arlairs
in a large way, and who have the
technical training of engineers. It
is believed that the six year engi
neering and commerce course now
offered by Wisconsin will give the
technical training needed for these
higher positions. In a similar man
ner courses are proposed which will
combine work in engineering and law
studies, and combine work in engi
neering and agricultural studies.
Already there is demand for men
trained in engineering and these
If the five and six year combina
tion courses are a success, Wiscon
sin will be in advance of all the uni
verrities of the country in providing
for technical education of the highest
grade. —Wisconsin Alumni Maga
zine-
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