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Much of the work being done by the Demonstrator in Engineering (general), Mr. Hui Cho Ying, was in the past performed by a Lecturer.. Mr. Hui's duties include instruction in Drawing to first and second year classes, in Applied Mechanics to the second year and in the Testing of Materials to the third year. When the Architectural Department is in full swing he will have to provide further courses of instruction in the Materials Laboratory. If Mr. Hui is still doing this work in 1952 he should be promoted to. a Junior Lectureship and his present post abolished. Should he resign before then a Lecturer should be appointed to succeed him.
It is recommended that the following additional posts be instituted, and appointments made by the dates shown:-
Post
Date
Junior Demonstrator Lecturer in Geology
September, 1950
September, 1952
Lecturer in Civil Engineering Lecturer in place of a
September, 1952
September, 1952
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Demonstrator
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
For the formation of this new Department, the Court of the University has already instituted a Chair, and an appointment should soon be made. The staff proposed is an absolute minimum, and it is probable that the new Professor will make greater demands.
It is recommended that the following further posts be instituted and appointments made at the dates shown:-
34.
Fost
Demonstrator
Lecturer
RESEARCH
Date
September, 1950 September, 1952
In addition to the fact that members of the staff should be encouraged to carry out Research Work, under our new regulations students will be required to undertake some piece of research in their final year. A Certain amount of useful research has been done by us in the past and there is no doubt that much work of value to the Colony can be carried out in our Laboratories. Even a modest grant of $5,000
a year would be of considerable help to us.
It is recommended that an amount of not less than $5,000 a year be allocated for purposes of research.
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MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
When the Professor of Civil Engineering attended a Meeting of the University's London Committee in 1947 at which the future of the Engineering Faculty was considered, he was given to understand that, acting on the advice of the Committee for Higher Education in the Colonies, the Colonial Government had adopted the policy of not establishing Schools of Engineering in the new Colonial Universiti cs. As far as he could gather students from the Colonies who wished to qualify as engineers would be required to obtain a degree in Pure Science (at their local university) and then do a two years course in engineering at one of the home universities.
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