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4. The University has a workshop which was constructed in 1925 out of a con- tribution of a lakh of dollars from Sir Robert Ho Tung. The curriculum of the Faculty of Engineering which is the same for all students, except that those who have by then definitely decided to be civil engineers start surveying (lectures and field work) in their third year, comprises during the first three year period, in addition to the practical workshop course taken during the first and second year, (1) mathematics (pure and applied), (2) physics (lectures, class exercises, labora- tory work), (3) chemistry (lectures, and laboratory work), (4) engineering drawing, (5) machines (lectures), (6) structures (lectures), (7) electrical technology (lectures), (8) hydraulics (lectures), (9) prime movers (lectures and laboratory work), (10) materials (lectures). (11) laboratory work in applied mechanics, (12) electrical laboratory work. (13) drawing office work.
5. The fourth year civil engineering course consists of lectures and field work in surveying, lectures in astronomy and advanced structures and lectures and labora- tory work in hydraulics. Ten hours a week are assigned to the Drawing Office and three to work in the "Concrete Laboratory or visits to works". The fourth year course in mechanical engineering includes lectures on (1) machine design and work- shop practice, (2) electrical engineering, (3) advanced prime movers. It gives six hours a week to the Drawing Office, eight hours a week to work in the Electrical Engineering Laboratories, six hours a week to work in the Prime Movers Labora- tories, and four hours a week to the Workshop. The fourth year electrical engineering course provides lectures on (1) electrical engineering and design, (2) electrical generation, transmission and distribution, and (3) advanced prime movers. The curriculum allows for ten hours a week in the Drawing Office, and eight and six hours a week respectively to the Engineering and Prime Movers Laboratories.
6. A freshman may enter the workshop before he starts on the engineering curriculum. This arrangement is advocated in the University Calendar for those students intending to join the Engineering Faculty who come to the University in September instead of in January, when the University year begins. This arrange- ment enables a student, before he starts on his course proper, to devote about three months to the Workshop.
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7. The workshop course, as shown in the University Calendar for 1931, pro- vides, during its first year, for thirty exercises calculated to bring into use the various tools required in filing up plate gauges to given limits + .001′′ .005", plain turn- ing to given limits + .001" .005", shaping material to given limits and using a shaping machine + .001" .005", milling to given limits + .001" .005", planing to given limits + .001” .005", screwing up hand dies, setting out plate for drilling, using surface plate and scribing block, forging and making small tools, hardening and tempering, brazing, soldering and case-hardening. The second year course includes 30 exercises which bring into use the various tools required in forging and making small tools, hardening and tempering, making plate gauges limit + .001" .002", plain turning-limit + .001′′ .002", grinding limit gauge limit + .0005", left and right hand screw cutting in the lathe, gear cutting, milling machine, helical milling, plaining and hand scraping to surface plate.
8. All students in the Enginering Faculty are required to take the full work- shop course during their first and second years. Students are also recommended to take advantage of the facilities offered for additional workshop instruction during the summer vacation. We notice that the extent to which a student has profited by their workshop course is not ascertained by any examination test; indeed, though the course is compulsory, no evidence other than that of the student having been signed on the workshop register, presumably by the Instructor in Workshop Practice, as having been in the workshop for a certain number of hours is apparently required The extra fee for the workshop course is $25 a term.
9. All students admitted to the engineering curriculum, except those who have been specifically exempted by the Board of the Engineering Faculty, are required to pass an examination in English. This is in addition to the English test passed at the Matriculation Examination. For those not exempted from this special test four hours' English teaching a week are provided as part of their first year course.
10. The University's degree of B.Sc. in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical En- gineering is awarded on four examinations, viz:--
(a) Intermediate Examination in Engineering Part 1. (b) Intermediate Examination in Engineering Part 2. (c) Final Examination in Engineering Part 1.
(d) Final Examination in Engineering Part 2.
A student is not allowed to appear at the Final Examination in Engineering Part 2 until he has passed the prescribed examination in English or has been specifically exempted therefrom.
11. The Faculty of Engineering is the only faculty in the University which awards degrees with honours. The standard in the case of these honour degrees is assessed by special examiners from among the external examiners in engineering of the Univer- sity of London. Bachelors of Science in Engineering may be admitted to the degree of a Master of Science in Engineering not earlier than two years after graduation. The requirements for the master's degree are the presentation of a suitable thesis and the passing of a written examination. If the examiners so desire, viva vore and practical examinations may also be held. The University Calendar for 1931 shows one master of science in engineering--
--an engineer graduate who is now employed in the Port Development Branch of the Public Works Department.
12. The permanent and whole time staff of the Engineering Faculty consists of the Taikoo Professor of Engineering, who is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Engineering Workshops, the Professor of Civil Engineering, the Pro- fessor of Electrical Engineering, a lecturer in civil and mechanical engineering, and a lecturer in mechanical engineering, a demonstrator in electrical engineering, an instructor in workshop practice, a demonstrator in mecluanical engineering and a de- monstrator in civil engineering. The Professor of Mathematics works both in the Faculties of Engineering and Arts, and is a member of the board of each of those faculties. The Professors and Lecturers of Chemistry and Physics, as also the de- monstrators of these two subjects. work in each of the three faculties, viz. the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts, and the Professors are members of the boards of each of these faculties. Special lectures are given annually by selected members of the Public Works Department of the Government of Hong Kong and a member of the staff of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company is now giving a special course in machine design and workshop practice.
13. The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company have for some years allowed students of the University's Engineering Faculty to come and work in their shops during the summer vacation. Last year this Company arranged for a member of their staff to be in general charge of these students while they were in the Taikoo workshops with a view to helping them to get the greatest possible advantage out of their stay in the works.
14. The member of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company's Staff who has been placed in charge of the University students during their temporary employ- ment in the Taikoo Dockyard is also giving the special course of instruction in machine design and workshop practice which is now a part of the fourth year mechanical engineering course. We have before us a report by this gentleman which is worth quoting. The whole course is to consist of thirty lectures and when the report was recorded the course had been in progress for about four months.
"The object of the lectures is to give some information on the intelligent construction and operation of machinery for land and marine use, with notes on management and workshop practice. Theory, therefore, to a great extent is being deleted, but numerous sketches of a practical nature are being added. A certain amount of difficulty is being encountered through lack of means of de- monstration, but one hour on boiler construction has been put in at Taikoo Dockyard.
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