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REPORT
ON THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
FOR THE YEAR 1928.
During the year under review the affairs of the Faculty progressed smoothly and there is nothing that requires very special comment.
The number of undergraduates on the roll was 55 as compared with 56 in the previous year.
The following table shows the number of students in each year and the results of the sessional examinations :-
No. of students registered
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examined
passed
Percentage of Passes
Ist Yr. 2nd Yr. 3rd Yr. 4th Yr.
19
18
8
10
13
18
8
IO
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14
5
9
77 77 55
90
The results of the Final Examinations are very satisfactory. Nine out of the ten candidates passed and five of them have been recommended by the Board of the Faculty for honours.
Mr. Lim Ko who graduated in 1927 was awarded First Class Honours by the London Assessor, Professor S. M. Dixon, who commented very favourably on the standard of his work.
Professor C. A. Middleton Smith returned from leave in March and Messrs. A. H. Fenwick and I. Day were absent on long leave from April to the end of the session. The Board of the Faculty is much indebted to Mr. S. V. Boxer for his valuable assistance during Mr. Fenwick's absence.
Mr. Yue Shui Chiu, Demonstrator in Civil Engineering, resigned his appointment in December to join the staff of the Kwangsi Mineral Land Survey as Chief Surveyor. His de- parture is a serious loss to the Department of Civil Engineering and yet it is gratifying to know that he is engaged in the sort of work which we particularly have in view for our Chinese graduates.
The question of attracting more students, especially in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, has again been given considerable attention. The chief difficulty lies in combining
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the practical training with the theoretical and this partly accounts for the dearth of students in these two branches of engineering.
At the request of the Council, Professor M. H. Roffey, during the summer vacation, paid a visit to Malaya to investigate on the spot the problem of employment for our graduates and further to seek an explanation for the lack of engineering students from the Straits. There is no doubt his efforts will bear fruit in due course.
The graduates of 1927 have on the whole found little diffi- culty in securing employment. The following statement as to how they are being employed is not without interest :-
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
Lim Ko..... Iau Tsung Kya...... Yih Chong Kung.
I. Jacob...... Tang Sze Wing........ Mak Chun Poy.....
Lim Pck Tiong..... Chan U Kin...................
Assistant Engineer, F.M.S. Railways.
Surveyors, Sarawak Oilfields, Borneo.
Messrs. Palmer & Turner, Shanghai. Harbour Works, Hoihow.
Civil Engineer, Hok Shan.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS,
Mill Engineer-Java.
Student apprentice with the British Thomson-Houston firm-Rugby,
England.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
Hung Huai Chen...... Student apprentice with the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.,
Rugby.
Yao Erh Kang......... Peking Municipal Scholar.
employment not known.
Present
Should the present activity in the development of public works in China continue there is no doubt whatever that we shall be called upon in the near future to deal with a steadily-and even rapidly-increasing number of engineering students.
F. A. REDMOND, Dean, Faculty of Engineering.
January 1929.
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