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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.

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8. All students in the Engineering 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.