DEAN O. J. FERGUSON

College of Engineering

EBRASKA'S natural products are leaving the state very much in their raw form. Nebraska's natural resources are not all being tapped. Nebraska's needs for power, to be applied to the daily uses and conveniences of her citizens, are not fully being met. Upon the engineering in Nebraska devolves the duty of changing these practices and conditions. Upon the University of Nebraska falls the task of supplying trained men who can "engineer" these processes. The University will continue to send engineers broadly into industry, where they are already honoring her by their success, but who will come more and more to study our own peculiar problems, to read our opportunities, to capitalize our resources of materials and men.

   The future College of Engineering therefore must continue to emphasize basic subjects and considerations, to teach the value of keen analysis and inventive synthesis, to stress the necessity of logical thinking and sound judgments.

   And, moreover, through its laboratories and its engineering experiment station, it must vigorously attack the knotty problems which bind our hands and tie our feet. It must break new paths for us to tread. It must open new fields for us to cultivate. It must build new industries to employ our sons and daughters.

   The College of Engineering at Nebraska is improving year by year. More students are attending the school and taking advantage of the courses offered in the College. Instructors are becoming more capable, as they need to be to train capable students who will go out as engineers of the future. New buildings are expected and will be elected in the next few years. Machinery is being improved and the College is advancing constantly.

   The College of Engineering is a forward-looking institution. It sees a future of continually enlarging service.

 

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