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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

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ENGINEERING COMPANY

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HONG KONG, LTD.

THE ENGINEERING FACULTY

TRAINING THE MEN WHO WILL MODERNISE CHINA

TWENTY ONE YEARS OF PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT

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Although extended over the brief ; laboratory and it would seem de, the Dean, the need for these two perint of twenty-one years ouly, sirable that the Steam laboratory { new buildings

extremely the history of the Faculty of En-hould be moved to a inviding ad- urgent.

joining the Ho Tang Workshops. gineering is an interesting satisfac- Further, it is considered that the tory and practical departmen. Steam laboratory and the internal 1 Hong Kong Univeraty. The

combustion engines should be enthusiasm which the Chinese hate housed together in a Prime Movers Brinced for this subject may be Emboratory and the proposed now steam laboratory should be large from the opening of ste session, in enough for this purpose. The cost. 1912. to thi present time.

On British Admiralty Listed by comparing the rolle

Shipbuilders and Repairers. Engineers and Boilermakers.

The three Faulties of Medieme, Engineering and Arts were work- ing from the start, but of the fifty- four students whose names Blood on the rolls on the day on which the University first opened its classes no less than thirty-seven were taking the engineering dourse. Mr. Mathewman had been appoint- ed a lecturer in physics and he,

Electric and Oxy-Acetylene together with Profesor C. A. Mid-

„Graving Dock

Welders.

Three Patent Slipways.

Length 878 feet. Breadth at entrance 88 feet. Depth of water on sill, O.S.

tides 34 feet 6 inches. Capable of taking steamers up to 3,000 tons displacement.

100 ton Electric Crane on Quay. Deep Water Quayage. Electric Overhead ~Cranes up to 100 tons throughout the shops. Powerful Tugs and Salvage gear always available.

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dleton Smith and Mr. W: J: Hin- ton (Registror) constituted the whole-time staff of the University. It will be recalled that Professor Middleton Smith, who now occupies the Taikoo Chair of Engineering, was appointed in 1913 and was, for a whole year, the only Professor in the University. This was the first Chair created in the University. Messrs. John Swire, Ltd. of Lon. don and associated firms gavė £40,000 to the original endowment fund. Messrs Jolin Swire, Ltd., subsequently gave a sum of $100,000 the income of which was to be spent on engineering equipment.

THE STUDENTS' WORK

Students not studying for a de- gree may be admitted to Jolares end technical instruction, but the experience of the Hong Kong University has been that practically

ENGINEERING LABORATORY

A busy scène in one of the Laboratorios of the Engineering Faculty. (Photo by Ah Fong.)

of a new building, including the removal of the existing equipment, has been estimated at $90,000 to

$100,000 and the provision of a new building for the Hydraulics Laboratory further $50,000.

It has been largely through the untiring efforts, the leadership and influence of Professor Middleton Smith that the Faculty has Been able to produce so many sưòckis- ful engineers. The excellence of the training may be judged from the annual report for 1931, in which

no student comes there to study the Ikarnafon Results show that

engineering unless he has an eye of a total of eighty-one candidates,

on the degree. Throughout the Afty-three passed. It is significant

far seurs course the engineering of the growing popularity of this

student spends about two hours a Faculty to compare the roll figates

day at lectures and four in the given above, 1012, with the htil this has been done the in laboratories, workshop or drawing students who enrolled in 1931, a

struction in these two very imffice. The first two years are de increase of eight over the previous portant sabjects cannot be conrider. voted to the study of physics, rear. It is an intresting come satisfactory. In the words of chemistry, mathematics and me mentary on the changed conditions in Hong Kong also, that, accord- ing to the report of the Dean. Mr. M. H. Roffey: "the lecture cleanes Aro a large that any individual attentior is impossible.”

WORKSHOPS AND EQUIPMENT

A description of the nature of the work carried out by the students ia this course would be incomplete without reference to the new work. shop, constructed in 1925 by means of a gift of $100,000 made by 21 Robert Ho Tung. The equipment for strani and hydraulics is housed in an adjacent building which was originally constructed as a Govern ment pumping station. By the courtesy of the Public Works De- partment, the engineering students are able to conduct beats on large triple-expansion pumping en gines and cylindrical boilers in ase at the Government pumping station close to the University.

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The electrical laboratories com- prise an electrical technical labora tory and a photomeuric room, which are in the baseinent of the Univer sdy, • The strengli of materiale” laboratory is fully equipped for the Acientific investigation of the phenomena of elasticity and for the commercial testing of materiale of construction, euch as ccinent. The applied mechanice laboratory is well equipped with apparatus suf- ficient for about twenty experi ments. There are also senior and júnior drawing officer, the physica “and chemistry laboratories" which

are veed by first and second year engineers.

LABORATORY INSTRUCTION

Efficient laboratory instruction is! one el, the first essentials "of an engineering course and the Faculty ia, severely handicapped by inade- quate laboratory accommodation andoquipment. Thanks to the generosity of Messrs. John Swine, Limited the interest

the

donation of $100,000 (referred to above) is still available, for the purpose of buying new apparatus for the engineering laboratories and this should enable a slow ind- provement to be made in equip ment. Unfortunately thin in pot sta preicht potatble in the case of two very important. Lahoratories the+ Steam and the Hydralic Labors torics. They are housed in an, old building which is quite unsuitable for the purpose: both are cramped for room even with the existing in.. dequate equipment, and expán.. sion is impossible for bither. The present site with a building would be suitable for the Hydraulics

chanical engineering. The student |; permeation of Chine^by "American · speaks the whole of his third yeni culture and the consequent pre- working on prime moters, materials judice to British trade in that and structures and electrical country, insisted that immediate technology. Surveying is taken steps should be taken to increase during this year by some of the the number of Chinese students students. In the fourth year the who pass frám China, tọ Univer- course is more specialised.

sities, technical institutes and The prospective civil engineer workshops in Britain. So far as takes structures, surveying and bydraulics, The future mechanical the passing of Chinese students engineer takes prime movers, electo Waiversities in Britain is con- tvical generation at the design of corned the position is what it wULS, engines and machines. The studentBat British manufacturers have who proposes to spoualise in elec

not been idle. During 18 three trical engineering takes the first ! mechanical engineers and electrical as student-apprentices to British two subjects in common with the of our engineering graduates weat design as a third subject. It is firms, I am proud to be able to tell iutereating to note that the engi

you that all these student-oppren." neering courses here were organia-

tices are doing well. Nor does the ed on the basis of the London

tale stop here, Messrs. Cras ley University curriculum, though in

Bros. Ltd., have already placed at London the course cari be complet

car disposal two student-appren ed in three years, whereas in Hony | ticeships in their works at Open Kong it takes four. This is at these apprenticeships we have got

For one shaw, Manchester. ibuted to the fact that the schools which not as feeders to Hongjust the man and he is ready to Kong University either do not teach science at all or teach it in- adequately. Alan to the majority of Far Easter students engineer ing it something quite new. In Hong Kong every student must study the elementary work of civil, echanical or electrical engineer ing and specilaisation is deferred; to the final year.

HONOURS DEGRESS

The engineering students can compete for honours which arc awarded on the recommendation of who are examiners in the University of London who cartify that the honours standard of the engineering degree of the University of Hong Kong is the same as that demanded by the University of London. Up to 192 there had been 109 engineering graduates of whom eleven were: awarded first-class honours twenty-two second class honours. In 1031, Mr. Yau Fung (Hon. Civil), obtained Second Class Honours.

PRACTICAL RESULTS

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Messes. Alfred Holt & Co., who have so kindly placed free passager. for students at our disposal, fur ther suggested calling into being a ocmmittee in which practical engi neering employers throughout Britain will sit, and the first, duty of this committee will be to secure, either ad hoc or for general pur- poses, offers of apprenticeships al- ready placed and to arrange visita or short-term attachments to other works, should such visits or attach nients be considered desirable,”

PRAISE FROM HOME

This is perhaps the most en- couraging thing that has ever hap rened to the University and it is praise which has reached Hong even eclipsed by the spontaneous Kong from British Universities of the qualities of graduates of Hong Kont University at present study ing at Home. Send us more of the Rascoe Professor of Architec- your men," writes Professor Reilly, ture in the University, of Liverpool, "I would always reserve places for them." It is difficult to conceive of a higher recommendation. In- deed, the brief record of the Faculty of Engineering, from 1912 to 1933, deavour and achievement. has been one of progress,

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To the question, "What practical reults has the Faculty of Engineer. ing produced?" the most cloquent answer is contained in the speech; of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, G.I.E, M.A., made at

It may he of interest to state that in 19 the first year engineer- Congregation in January, 1638. He ing undergraduates total 59-a re then stated: "When I last address-cord number. The representation. ad the Congregation I referred to which the University has wou as a the visit to the University in 1938 centre for theoretical and practical of the British Economic Mission to construction in engineering hoa ats the Far East. and I told you how tracted students from all over the that Mission, after deploring the Far East

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LANTERN OR JACK ROOFS AN ANACHRONISM.

The Robertson Ventilator Demonstráting Machine.

The operation of the maching reproduced above gives a most impressive demonstration of the various ventilating, devices and methods in use at the present times

On the right of the photogmph, a small model of a Robertson Fatent Ventilator is men in position on an adjustable sloped roof ready to undergo, moergometer test. The teat completed, the Robertson Ventilator is removed, it's place taken by the small modal Lantern or Jack Root shown in the centre of the photograph, and a similar test carried out.

Comparison of results shows-

Robertson Patent Ventilator

High exhaust efficiency under all conditions.

Lantern or Jnck Roof.

Under no condition is it as efficient as the Robertson Ventilator. Large Percentage of Test shows complete fallure to exhaust and the creation of back-draughts..

Robertson Patent Ventilators are stationary, have no moving parts, consequently there

is po noise, no expense for operation, adjustment or repairs,

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24th to 27th May, 1933.

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