College of Civil Engineer- Ing Announces New Four Year Course to Fit Public Works and Utilities Needs
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Svery Cornellian's Taper CORNELL ALUMNI NEW In the News this Week: College of Civil Engineer- ing Announces New Four Year Course to Fit Public Works and Utilities Needs. University Suggests Policies on Regional Scholarships from Alumni Clubs. Farm and Home Week Brings Record Crowd of Eight Thousand Visitors to the Campus. Basketball Team Suffers Disap- pointing Defeats—Wrestlers and Boxers Lose—Hockey, Polo and Rifle Teams Win—Fencers Tie. Volume 37 Number 18 February 21, 1935 IN DEVONSHIRE NOW IT'S BOTH EASY AND INEXPENSIVE TO 4-* ιH» I/is '-'^K; \ . u Ai Λ 'ί fefti^^l^: W<Φ* I Your travel agent will gladly arrange an inex- compliments) . 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Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July, August and September VOL. XXXVII, NO. l8 ITHACA, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY II, I 93 5 PRICE I 5 CENTS CIVIL ENGINEERING BROADENS ITS SCOPE New Four-Year Course will Train for Executive Positions in Business and Public Works That the Cornell civil engineer of the future will be not only a competent engineer but will equally understand the broader economic and social implications of his work and become thus a more competent executive is forecast in the announcement this week by Director S. C. Hollister of a new four-year course in the School of Civil Engineering. Besides the strictly professional engineering training in which it has always ranked among the leaders, the School, beginning next fall, greatly broadens its scope to prepare its students for executive positions in business and in local, regional, state and national public works, in railroad operation, in the administration of public utilities, and in city management, appraisal, and valuation. The civil engineer of the future,'' says tions, of economics and the wider im- Professor Hollister, "will be much more plications of public planning, such as he than a good technician. If he is concerned needs to have for this larger opportun- with the planning and construction of ity. Now we propose to give Cornell highways and great parkway systems, engineers the fundamentals of these sub- he must know more than merely how to jects along with their professional work. build roads and bridges; he must under- The new course will lead to the degree stand the principles of traffic control, of of Bachelor of Science in Administrative population movements, the broad social Engineering. Entrance requirements are aspects of planning, and the economic identical with those for the other four- considerations which enter into these year courses in the College of Engineer- great modern developments. Likewise, if ing; in fact, the freshman year will not he is to conceive and carry out such large- differ from the first year in the regular scale public works as the great flood con- civil engineering course. Instruction in trol operations, water and sanitary dis- accounting, which begins in the sopho- tricts, housing projects, port and harbor more year, emphasizes the function of ac- developments, he must know the wider counting in business control. In later implications of his work and be able to years it comprises statistical methods see beyond mere construction to its employed in business, cost accounting ultimate use by humans and its effect on methods and their use in business analy- living and business conditions. The same sis, and valuation engineering. Similarly, is true of the operation of railroads and a basic study of economics beginning the other public utilities; Cornell engineers sophomore year is expanded into more who will assume positions of responsibil- DIRECTOR S. C. HOLLISTER detailed study of labor relations, of ity must understand not only their con- corporate structure and finance, of money struction and operation, but the public with gray, Professor Hollister talks and banking, taxation, and engineering aspects of their management. Similar quietly but with tremendous enthusiasm law. Business and industrial manage- opportunities and responsibilities will be of the opportunities which the new ment, also begun in the second year, is increasingly offered in business and in- course opens to Cornell engineers. He carried through the senior year, conclud- dustry, in city management, and the came last fall from Purdue, with an out- ing with a course in engineering manage- many related services in which an engi- standing record as a teacher and practic- ment methods. The new curriculum also neer's professional schooling will be- ing engineer. At his desk in the severely includes applied psychology, technical come doubly valuable when supple- furnished director's office in historic writing, and public speaking. mented with this additional training we Lincoln Hall, on the walls the portraits Extends College Development shall give at Cornell." of former great teachers beginning with The new course in the School of Civil Looks to Future Service Estevan A. Fuertes, he is much the con- Engineering applies in the field of public "We do not claim to be able to turn servative engineer, but with such con- works and allied engineering operations out finished executives in four years," suming vision and quiet confidence of somewhat the same principles that under- he says. '' Neither are we looking merely accomplishment as to leave no doubt lie the present course in Administrative at the public works now being initiated that the University has found the man Engineering for industrial management by the Government. Engineers do not who will translate opportunity to real under the direction of Professor John R. find themselves professionally for ten or achievement. Bangs '19 in the Schools of Mechanical fifteen years after they get out of college. The ordinary training of the engineer and Electrical Engineering. Both courses We are looking that far ahead. Our job is in fact-finding, analyzing, and planning lead to the same degree; each trains its to set a horizon for our graduates; to is fundamental training for any business. students for its particular field of en- give them a vision of their real opportuni- Perhaps for this reason a constantly in- gineering management; and both are also ties and the broad foundations on which creasing number of engineering gradu- intended to qualify their graduates for they can build their own places in the ates are going into executive positions in executive positions in business in which much larger developments that are business and industry. Heretofore, only engineering training is valuable. Both of ahead." after graduation could the engineer get course are under the general direction of Tall, spare, and reserved as befits his knowledge of accounting 'methods, cor- Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the College Puritan ancestry, his hair just flecked porate organization, banking, labor rela- of Engineering. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS OLD PLAYERS HONOR DOBIE The Mott residence at 5 Grove Place FORM SABINE DISTRICT CLUB At a dinner February 8 at the Cornell and the newly redecorated Cosmopolitan The Sabine District Cornell Alumni Club of New York, eighty members of Club building have become centers of Association was organized by nineteen former Cornell football teams gathered activity of the foreign students in the alumni, meeting for dinner at the Edson to honor Gilmour Dobie. Formation of University and of those interested in Hotel, Beaumont, Tex., on February 14. the Cornell Football Association of them. Mrs. Mott was one of the first Charles A. Brown '31, assistant manager Greater New York was announced. women to be voted into active member- of the hotel and prime mover of the or- George R. Pfann '24, Rhodes scholar and ship in the Cosmopolitan Club after the ganization, was elected secretary. Wayne all-American quarterback on the un- recent change in the by-laws. E. Kuhn, PhD '30, of Port Arthur, Tex., defeated teams of 19x1, '2.2., and '2.3, was elected president. described the objects and aims of the TO ACCEPT CLUB FUNDS It was voted to meet for dinner the new association, of which he is the first For Alumni Scholarships second Thursday of each month, the president.