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Building Construction and Field Surveying.
These Classes are intended to assist students who are engaged during the day time as draughtsmen or as clerks in Architects or Engineers' offices, and also to prepare those who wish to qualify for similar positions.
Building Construction
1st Year, Instruction dealing with the methods of pre- paring drawing and the construction of simple buildings is given.
2nd Year-The work dealt with includes construction as applied to larger buildings and notes ou steelwork, drainage, and the materials used in buildings,
3rd Year. In this stage more advanced construction is taken and students are taught to plan out and make working and detail drawings of simple buildings in accordance with Public Health and Buildings Ordinance of Hong Kong,
Architectural Design.
Drawing. Instruction and practice in copying drawings of Architectural features and working out simple designs; as well as practice in freehand, pen and ink and water colour work.
Design. The proportions and applications of the Orders and the various other architectural features, doors, windows, balus- trades, etc.
Perspective. Principles and methods, and practice in working out simple problems.
Shading. The method of shading architectural drawings, with practice in working out simple problems.
Regular courses of lectures and instruction in drawing are given, and examples of practical work similar to those met with in drawing offices are set for each student to work out.
This practical work forms an important part of the courses of instruction, and in addition arrangements are made on Saturday afternoons in each term for students to visit buildings in course of erection,where the methods of construction dealt with in Class can be seen and further explained.
Field Surveying.
Lectures on simple land surveying and levelling are given, followed by practical work in the field.
Elementary theodolite work is also included. Students have every opportunity of obtaining practice in the ase and adjustments of surveying instruments such as levels and theodolites.
Steam.
The course in this subject, which is taught when required, covers the principles underlying the working of steam engines and deals with the various processes whereby the heat in the fuel is converted into work in the engine.
It includes an account of heat and temperature, the expansive properties of steam, horsepower of an engine and its calculation from the indicator diagram, valve diagrams, valve settings, engine details and a general description of boilers and their mountings.
Electrical Engineering.
The Syllabus proposed is as follows:
Fundamental Principles-The effects of an electric current. Conductors and insulators; Ohm's Law, parallel and series circuits. Definition of the units employed and simple Power Calculations. Electromagnetism, electro magnetic induction and its practical ap- plications, elementary principles of generators and motors, Elec- trical measurements and description of instruments employed. The applications of Electricity to power, lighting, heating, etc. Electric wiring, testing and fault location. The elements of generation, trausmission, distribution of electrical energy. Secondary Cells, Description of modern types of generators, motors and other elec- trical apparatus, with practical hints on their care and manage-
ment.
Teachers' Classes.
These Classes are for both men and women Teachers. There are two courses, one being for "English" Teachers, the other for "Vernacular" Teachers The Certificate granted at the end of the course is recognised by the Government.
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