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• Andrew Carnegie gift of $100,000 to create course in mechanical engineering

  'Andrew Carnegie
• Mechanical Engineering

  In 1899, the creation of Mechanical Engineering Dept because $100,000 Andrew Carnegie 75 year Endowment pledge if college could raise another $600,000. (Schaffer et al.) The interest in mechanical engineering rose post-Civil War period (from about 1880 to the turn of the century). Mechanical engineering worked to establish pure scientific research, replacing the older scientific methods practiced and the professional society (ASME) found origins going back to the 1880
• Electrical Engineering department name and degree changed to Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1999 - Name change to ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
• The History of Electrical Engineering Education at Lafayette College published

  Smith, Finley W. The History of Electrical Engineering Education at Lafayette College is written by Finley W. Smith and published in 1976. Note: there are four pictures in this pamphlet: Electronics Laboratory, Power Laboratory, Micro-wave Laboratory, Computer Laboratory
• AIEE and IRE joined to form IEEE

  AIEE and IRE joined to form IEEE. (Smith)
• Formation of Eta Kappa Nu

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• Student branch of the Institute of Radio Engineers formed

  Student branch of the Institute of Radio Engineers formed. (Smith)
• Improved facilities for electrical engineering

  During 1945-46 'improved quarters for the Department of Electrical Engineering were prepared in the mechanical engineering building.' (Gendebien, p. 206)
• First EE graduate to continue his studies through to a doctorate

  'Mr. Donald Clements, Class of 1945, was the first electrical engineering graduate to continue his graduate studies through the Doctoral level, receiving his Doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.' (Smith, p. 35-6)
• Offering of a technical option and an administrative option in electrical engineering

  'In 1933-34, a new program was started in electrical engineering and offered a technical option and an administrative option to the students. This might be listed historically as the first option program. The purposes of the options were as follows: (1) The Technical Option aimed to fit the student for the more technical side of electrical engineering, such as construction, operation, research, and design; (2) the Administrative Option, in which economics and management courses were substituted for more highly technical subjects, aimed to fit the student for positions in the electrical industry, such as sales engineer, superintendent, manager, and
• Revisions to electrical engineering curriculum

  Date approximate: 'Electrical engineering education, in turn, now needed to provide students with a basic theoretical grounding that would fit them to deal with a broad variety of technological problems. Dr. King
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

  'Dr. King introduced innovation in the electrical program as listed in the Catalog for 1921-22. A major in electrical engineering and a minor in physics, chemistry or mathematics were set up for graduate students who wished to earn the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering' (Smith, p. 21)
• Acquisition of first oscilloscope

  'The one new major piece of electrical equipment was a General Electric oscilloscope obtained in 1920. This versatile instrument served as the
• Student Branch of American Institute of Electrical Engineers given a charter

  Student Branch of American Institute of Electrical Engineers given a charter. (Smith, p. 21)
• Creation of the Electrical Engineering Department

  'In 1909 James Theron Rood, Ph.D., was named Professor and head of the Electrical Engineering Department.' (Smith)
• Electrical engineering no longer part of the Physic Department

  'A separate degree was given in electrical engineering, although this course remained part of the Physics Department until 1909.' (Smith, p. 5)
• First faculty in electrical engineering

  'The first listing of an Electrical Engineering Faculty appeared in the 1894-95 Catalog. This listed Chauncey G. Hellick, C.E. and Ph.D., as an Instructor of Electrical Engineering. Prior to that time Dr. Hellick had been listed as a member of the Physics Faculty.' (Smith, p. 6)
• First Electrical Engineering Degrees

  First degrees given in electrical engineering
• First applicant to new electrical engineering course

  'It is interesting to note that the first applicant for the new electrical engineering course was John Morton Davis, a great-grandson of John Morton, one of the Pennsylvania signers of the Declaration of Independence.' (Smith, p. 5)
• Original catalog description for electrical engineering course

  'The 1889-90 College Catalog
• Electrical Engineering

  In 1889, 'Professors Moore and Silliman and Instructor William J. Young reported to the President that they had secured apparatus and were willing to give the courses for a Department of Electrical Engineering without expense to the college... The first degrees were given in 1893.' (Skillman, p. 62) Electrical Engineering at Lafayette College came in the wake of Edison and Faraday
• Decision to drop mining engineering

  'In the fall of 1955 the Board of Trustees decided to admit no more students to the program and to drop mining engineering when the students already enrolled had been graduated
• Markle Hall of Mining Engineering Dedicated

  In 1929, the dedication of the John Markel Hall of Mining Engineering. (Schaffer et al.)
• John Markle Hall of Mining Engineering Built

  'In 1927 he built the magnificent John Markle Hall of Mining Engineering and later generously endowed the department with gifts totaling nearly a million dollars.' (Skillman, Vol. 2, p. 259); In Oct. 1927, John Markle, president of the Jeddo Highland Coal Company and a trustee, gave the funds for a mining engineering building
• Department of Mining Engineering "rehabilitated"

  In 1919, 'The department of Mining Engineering was rehabilitated and strengthened by Mr. John Markle, who offered $5,000 a year for the payment of the salary of a professor in this subject.' Skillman, Vol. 2, P. 259