Calendar: 1890-1891 Page 187
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ENGINEERING 163 Third Yeah Lecture Room from to every Friday during the Academical Year Students may also attend the Lectures and Field Work of the First and Second Years The Third Year course deals with the various branches of Civil Engineering practice Selecting routes for Roads and Railways Contouring and Laying out Land for Building Irrigation and other purposes Sewerage Contract Sections Points and Crossings Tunnelling and Setting out Tunnels Gauging Streams Taking Soundings Measuring and Oh- serving Currents Hydraulic Surveying Slopes and Slips Stadium Omnimeter Tacheometer Bridges Calculation of Strains Lattice and Nob Girders Cast Iron Bridges Railways in England and abroad Passenger and Goods Main Lines double and single The arrangement of Passing Places Level Crossings Junctions Sidings Turnouts Cross- overs Stations and Goods Yards Steep Grade Railways Tramways Land Reclamation by embanking or warping up Foreshore protection Land draining Sewerage of Towns and Villages Sewage Outfalls Sewage disposal by irrigation by filtration and by precipitation Water supply of Towns and Villages Impounding Reservoirs Underground Water Springs Wells &C Arrangements of mains service pipes valves and hydrants Floods Prevention Improving navigable channels Training Walls Docks Harbours Piers The Students of this year accompany the Professor to in- pect various Works in course of execution in the Metropolis and thus obtain practical experience in Civil Engineering matters which have been the subject of instruction in the College Prizes and Certificates are given at the end of each Academical Year to the Students of each year who distinguish themselves both in Field work and at the Examinations The Course is suitable to the requirements of the Syllabus of Examination of the Surveyors' Institution
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