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The lectures given to date include the following:---
(i) The disposition of various workshops with reference to the Marine En-
gineering Industry.
(ii) The lay-out of machinery in workshops with practical information on
the intelligent operation of each department.
(iii) Welding, brazing, soldering, with notes on chilled and malleable castings. (iv) Contracts and estimating.
(v) Description of firetube boilers with notes on difficulties encountered in
construction.
(vi) Practical information on intelligent boiler management.
(vii) Boiler mountings with some notes on strength of plates.
(viii) Observation at Taikoo Dockyard.
(ix) Water tube boilers, land and marine use. Yarrow and Babcock and Wilcox types. Description and practical information on construction and
management.
The students are showing considerable interest in the subjects under review and definite progress is being made
Attendance is good.
15. The Taikoo Professor of Engineering reported in March that three students are now taking the fourth year mechanical engineering course. He reported that next year there would be four students taking this course, adding :—
"As the students do not specialise until the 3rd year it is impossible to give numbers for 1933 onwards; as, however, the entries have been much larger during the last two years, and as there is now more prospect of employment for mechanical engineers in China, we anticipate a considerable increase in these numbers.'
The present enrolment of the Engineering Faculty is as follows:-
1st Year 39
2nd Year 23
3rd Year
15
Civil
13
4th Year
Mech.
Elec.
3
None
Facilities offered by the China Light & Power Company.
The University degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering has been awarded to 151 graduates, viz., Civil Engineering graduates 84; Electrical Engineering graduates 39; Mechanical Engineering graduates 27. There was also one War graduate. Records of the careers of these graduates have unfortunately not been kept by the Faculty. We are of opinion that careful records of the careers of its graduates should be kept by the Faculty of Engineering.
16. In January, 1929, through the good office of the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the General Manager of the China Light & Power Co. (1918) Ltd., agreed to extend such facilities as the Company was able to offer to graduates and undergraduates of the University who might wish to acquire practical training as apprentices in the Company's Power Stations, sub-stations and workshops. The General Managers sug- gested that the facilities then offered would afford an excellent opportunity to under- graduates to obtain practical experience in electrical engineering during the Univer- sity's vacations. The General Managers explained that the Company was not equipped with workshops for manufacturing or repair purposes to an extent which would enable a student of electrical engineering to gain that practical knowledge which can only be obtained in works where plant is under construction or repair "where the student through actual usage of machine tools etc., and experience at the work and test benches, gains that experience so necessary at a later date". The General Managers mentioned this limitation in order that subsequent disappointment might be avoided. In conclusion the General Managers reported that, though it was then only possible to offer apprenticeships in the Company at nominal salaries, the Directors would be pleased to consider as occasion arose, the engagement of "such persons as it is found possible to absorb into the Company's requirements of qualified electrical engineers.