Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and by Alan I. Marcus

By Alan I. Marcus

Engineering in a Land-Grant Context is a quantity of well-crafted essays that think about the federal government's first foray into better schooling through interpreting engineering schooling on the nation's land-grant universities over the last a hundred and forty years. The authors exhibit how that background has framed the current and recommend the way it is probably going to steer the fashioning of the long run. The professional participants, all of whom have studied and written prominently at the historical past of engineering schooling, pay attention to revealing the serious tendencies and significant occasions of this 140-year historical past.

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They intensified their campaign there in subsequent years. ” In 1925, cornstalk products joined corncobs. Students constructed their fair booth from cornstalk lumber and decorated the interior with cornstalk tiles. State fairs advertised the chemical engineers’ work in Iowa and gave them some national publicity, but the real break came in 1927. Iowa State’s engineers were invited to the Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Chemical Industries in New York. Exhibiting hundreds of corncob and cornstalk products, the chemical engineers suddenly burst into national prominence.

Andrews, University of Nebraska, to Congressman David H. Mercer, chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, dated November 22, 1900; Letter from Chairman Mercer to R. O. Crump, chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining, dated December 5, 1900; Letter from J. P. Blanton, president, University of Idaho, to Senator George L. Shoup, dated March 5, 1900; Letter from Senator Shoup to Senator William M. Stewart, chairman, Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, dated March 17, 1900; Letter from “C.

The land-grant colleges had started out in conflict with state university and other institutional proponents. Once established, agricultural colleges almost immediately faced the problem, within their own institutions, of strife and jealousies between the agricultural and mechanic arts branches. Their failure to gain recognition and support from their own governing body further frustrated mechanic arts supporters and ultimately led them to turn to the SPEE for guidance and support. As such, land-grant college engineering departments found themselves at odds with agricultural program supporters.

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