In the past undergraduate and graduate engineering students sometimes submitted a design for a campus building or other structure as their thesis. These included proposals such as a design for a men’s dormitory submitted by a student in 1932 and a design for an “electric display fountain” submitted by a student in 1938. Some of these designs were very comprehensive and included detailed drawings of the proposed project, a location, and cost estimates. None of these designs actually resulted in the construction of a building or other structure but in one case, a thesis included in this exhibit described a proposal submitted in 1943 for a railroad bridge to be built over Farm Lane that is in the same area as the railroad bridge over Farm Lane that was completed several years ago. This exhibit highlights the work of five engineering students: Wylie Albert Bowmaster, Donald William Brice, Leo Vaughn Nothstine, Walter Winston Pressley, and Milton Elywn Reeder.
