As a contribution to industrial training for the war emergency, Pratt
Institute is conducting day and evening courses in Machine Work,
which have been especially organized to serve the present need for
increased productive efficiency in this country’s machine shops.
These courses are designed to aid ambitious machine shop workers of
limited development, including machine operators, bench hands and
machinists’ helpers, who wish to extend and broaden their practical
ability as a means to personal advancement in the trade, increased
earning power and fuller service to production. Pratt Institute’s
Machine Shop has been continuously employed to maximum capacity for
this instruction since the entry of the United States into the war.
The Machine Work comprises six graded courses, each of which requires
for its completion six weeks, if taken as a full-time day course,
seven hours per day, or if taken as an evening course, twenty-four
weeks, three evenings per week, two hours per evening. Day students
register and pay tuition for six weeks, and evening students for
twelve weeks. New classes are started at frequent intervals. A
student may start in any course for which he is qualified, and may
enroll for additional courses, either consecutively, or at some later
time, if he finds it desirable to withdraw temporarily. Students are
permitted also to transfer at any time from the day to the evening
course or vice versa, with full credit for work already performed.
The instruction is adapted to the individual. Men capable of
following directions without excessive damage to material or
equipment are put on productive work. Men who have not reached this
degree of efficiency are commonly assigned exercises. About 75 per
cent. of the work is productive. Production is introduced as a means
to greater efficiency in training.
Courses in Wooden Boat and Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, Gasoline
Engine Maintenance and Operation, Machine Drawing and Design, Ship
Drafting, Chemical Laboratory Practice, in addition to an extensive
list of day and evening trade and technical courses, all of which are
of special service in the war emergency, are being conducted.
(Signed) SAMUEL S. EDMANDS.
[Illustration: Pratt Institute’s Machine Shop has been employed to
capacity since our entry into the war.]
[Illustration: Pratt Institute. Note the “older men.”]
[Illustration: Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) is conducting day and
evening courses in machine work.]
[Illustration: Pratt Institute. Ambitious machine shop workers go out
from here to give fuller service in production.]