78 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH Electives TRADE-RELATED SUBJECTS The following courses, while open to all students, are designed particularly for trade students. 53a. Drafting Problems. A course devoted to the necessary drawing fundamentals required by apprentices entering the metal-working field. It includes shop drawing, plain sketching, blueprint reading, and diagram reading and preparation. The course is suggested as an elective for all students in the metal-working field. Three hours terminal credit. Autumn, Winter, Spring. McCormac 53b. Internal Combustion Engines. A course in the study of the fundamental construction, operation, science and theory of the diesel motor and the airplane engine, including both the four-stroke and the two-stroke cycle principles. Special emphasis is given to the theory and materials used in the construction and the operation principles, including actual motor demonstrations. The course is designed for students who have had some previous mechanical training. Three hours terminal credit. Autumn, Spring. Gaz 53c. Labor Problems. A course designed to give the student a good working knowledge of labor Organizations, and the legislation affecting labor and related economic and political trends. Two hours terminal credit. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 53d. Vocational Orientation. A practical course in vocational guidance treating problems of adjustment in college life, selecting an occupation, living with a job, and living in the home and community. (See Orientation 11.) Two hours terminal credit. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 53e. Vocational Science. A course in which principles of mechanics, heat, electricity, and chemistry are applied to practical shop problems. Two hours terminal credit. Spring. Osmond SPECIALIZED TRADE UNITS Department of Unit Trade Training (On-Campus) J. McCormac, J. Gaz, T. Allen, D. Davis, R. Vandenberg, G. Alexander, S. Murphy The following units are offered on a supplementary and pre-employment basis. The pre-employment courses are designed to teach the learner a few specialized parts of the trade, while the supplementary courses aim to increase specialized skills of workers employed by the essential war industries in the Ogden area. The courses include Aircraft Engine Over-haul, Aircraft Mechanics, Arc and Acetylene Welding, Auto Body Repair, Auto Mechanics, Carpentry, Electronics, Machine Shop, Sheetmetal, and others. IN-PLANT TRAINING Department of In-Plant Training (Off-Campus) Because of the necessity of rapidly placing thousands of workers into new jobs, the in-plant (off-campus) type of service has been in great demand. Two types of in-plant training have been offered. (1) Courses are conducted on company time. In this type, the instructor works in close cooperation with the worker's foreman, training in actual production operations. (2) Courses are conducted in plant shops but on WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 79 the worker's own time. (Voluntary Supplementary training). This type of training operates 4-10 hours a week. Courses are as follows: Aircraft Sheetmetal, Aircraft Sheetmetal Lay-out, Aircraft Engine Mechanics, Aircraft Acetylene Welding, Aircraft Arc Welding, Aircraft Blueprint Reading, Blueprint Reading for the Metal Trades, Milling Machine Operation, Lathe Operation, Machine Shop, Aircraft Armaments, Aircraft Inspection, Aircraft Plastics, Aircraft Rigging, Aircraft Engine Installation, Aircraft Woodwork, Aircraft Hydraulics, Aircraft Fabric and Doping, Inventory Clerking, Power Sewing Machine Operation, Aircraft Instruments, Aircraft Electricity, Aircraft Radio, Aircraft Radar, Aircraft Bombsights, Machine Shop Mathematics, Air Corps Technical Orders, Army and Navy Aircraft Standards, Truck Driving, Fork Lift Operation, Bus Driving, Projection Equipment Operation, Crating and Boxing, Safety. SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT Department of Supervisory Personnel Development C. Wilson The Supervisory Personnel Development curricula comprise courses of approximately 50 hours' length in (1) Problems of Handling People, (2) The Supervisor as an Instructor, (3) Improvement in Job Methods, (4) Organization and Management of Production, and (5) The Supervisor's Part in Safety. These courses have been given to over 2,000 supervisors in this area and have met with great favor. The purpose of this program is to assist management in training its supervisors more efficiently to discharge their responsibilities in handling personnel problems, in instructing new and old workers in their departments, in establishing better job procedures, in organizing their departments, and in understanding and following a safety program in connection with their work. Problems of Handling People. This course includes such units as problems of inducting new workers, reprimanding, building confidence, handling grievances, preventing grievances, training workers for responsibility, adjusting women to production, and getting cooperation from the management and the workers. Eight sessions of one and one-half hours each are given to the course. The Supervisor as an Instructor. This course includes units on teaching methods, learning difficulties, practice in demonstration teaching, making job breakdowns, and in teaching the job. Six sessions of one and one-half hours each are given to the course. Improvement in Job Methods. This course includes instruction and practice in analyzing present job procedures for the purpose of finding and putting into practice improvements which will increase production. Organization and Management of Production. This course is designed to give instruction in the functions of management such as, planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling. Twelve hours. The Supervisor's Part in Safety. This course is designed to give instruction in a method of taking an inventory of a department on safety, in investigating all interruptions to production and making plans to eliminate those courses of interruption, in planning a safety program, in delegating duties and responsibilities, in selling the plan to the department personnel, and following-up to see that the safety program is followed. Seven and one-half hours. Each of the conferences in these courses has been tried out and re-planned so that the material covered is refined and concentrated. Charts and film strips add much interest to the instruction.