ENGINEERING SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 10

ENGINEERING SCHOOL

Full Recognition Sought AUCKLAND REQUEST Dominion Special Service. Auckland. December 8. A move to have the School of Engineering at Auckland University College granted full recognition by the University Senate was decided upon at a meeting of the College Council. Previous to 1927 students at Auckland College were enabled to study for only the engineering intermediate examination. In January of that year the senate decided to allow Auckland to prepare students for the first and second professional examinations in addition to the intermediate examination. Under this arrangements Auckland students must proceed to Christchurch to study for their final examination. In a report presented to the council the dean of the faculty of engineering. Professor S. E. Lamb, said tlie School of Engineering had just completed four years’ work since it received partial recognition from the senate to teach for the engineering degree. During those years the enrolments had been 128 m 1927. 135 in 1928, 120 in 1929. and 112 in 1930. The school successes in the degrees examinations had been uniformly high in each of the four years. “The Auckland School of Engineering hns amply justified the confidence reposed in it by the university. senate when it received partial recognition for teaching for the engineering degree,’’ said Professor Lamb in conclusion, “but a certain amount of hardship still remaimwhile our local students have to travel 500 miles to Christchurch to study for their final year. There is no reason why the Auckland school should not be granted full recognition. There is only one additional laboratory reouired in the final year hydraulics, and the school is well equipped for teaching this subject We have been teaching tjie whole of the subjects of the final year for the engineering degree for the purposes of the local diploma of associate of engineering for a considerable number of years past, and are well able to teach to the legree standard without any additional expense for equipment or staffing. I anticipate that 13 of our students will be qualified to study for the final professional course of the engineering degree in 1931. and that these students will be put to an ad ditional expense of about £9O each if thet are compelled to travel to Christchurch and above what it would cost them if they could remain in Auckland,” It was decided unanimously tn write to the university senate asking for full recognition of the school,