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The College of Engineering and Architecture's roots are found in the first university Bulletin (May 1892), with the establishment of the Department of Mechanics. A four quarter curriculum was offered which included wood and metal-working shops as well as mechanical drawing. With the arrival in 1893 of Edward S. Keene, Professor in Mechanical Engineering (eventual first Dean of the School of Mechanic Arts), courses in steam engineering, thermo-dynamics and dynamo-electric machines were added to the curriculum. This two-year program was supported by a mechanical laboratory erected in the same year.
The department under went a number of name changes between 1894 and 1907: Department of Mechanics & Physics - 1894-1895, Department of Mechanics - 1895-1898, Department of Mechanics and Physics – 1899-1904; Department of Mechanical Engineering & Physics - 1904-1906, and the Department of Engineering & Physics - 1907-1917. During this period of time the comprehensive four-year curriculum in mechanics was developed, an engineering building was built, now known as South Engineering, and majors in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, steam engineering (2 year), physics, and course work in free hand drawing was offered. It was in the 1916-1917 Bulletin the division of Architecture and Architectural Engineering is first reported. When the School of Mechanic Arts was established in 1917, the following divisions were established: architecture and architectural engineering, civil engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and physics. In the 1922-23 Catalog, industrial engineering is no longer a division and as of the 1923-24 Catalog, all the divisions have now become departments. In the 1927-1928 Catalog, the Department of Mechanical Engineering becomes the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. As of the 1935-1936 Bulletin, the Department of Chemistry is added. In the 1939-1940 Catalog, the Department of Agricultural Engineering is added and the Department of Chemistry is now located in the School of Chemical Technology . In the 1940-1941 Bulletin, there are separate departments for Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. In 1949, an additional engineering building was approved by the legislature, originally called North Engineering, but changed to Dolve Hall in 1954. Complimentary to Dolve Hall was the construction of the Architecture Quonset, used as the aeronautical engineering laboratory. In the 1950-1951 Catalog, the Department of Agricultural Engineering is added to the School of Engineering. As of the 1954-1955 Bulletin, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management was added.
n 1962, the College of Engineering became the College of Engineering and Architecture. In the 1962-1964 Catalog, Industrial Engineering and Management became just Industrial Engineering. As Engineering continued to expand at NDSU, in the early 1960s plan for an Engineering Center were developed and ground breaking took place in 1963. As of the 1965-1967 Bulletin, the Department of Physics was located within the College of Chemistry and Physics. As of the 1967-1969 the Department of Electrical Engineering expanded and became the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. As of the 1970-1972 Bulletin, the Department of Architecture was now listed, as well as a set curriculum in Construction Management. In the fall of 1971 a graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was established in the College. In the 1974-1976 Bulletin, management is added back to industrial engineering to create then Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and mechanical engineering became the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In the 1978-1980 Bulletin, construction management became the Department of Construction Management and Engineering.
In 1983, a Petroleum Engineering Program was established as a component of the Engineering Science Department, a division within the College of Engineering and Architecture. The program officially began in the academic year 1986-1987. Due to budget cuts the Petroleum Engineering program was discontinued in 1995.
The 1984-1986 Bulletin shows the addition of Engineering Science as well as the Department of Landscape Architecture, which had been approved in 1983. In the spring of 1990, the graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was cut. The 1990-1992 Bulletin reflects a few changes in departments within the college: Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Division of Civil Engineering and Construction. In the 1992 Bulletin, the Department of Engineering Technology was added.
In the 1994-1996 Bulletin, the Military Science (Army ROTC) and the Aerospace Science (Air Force ROTC) have moved from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the College of Engineering and Architecture. In addition, Civil Engineering and Construction is now a department, no longer a division. As of the 1996-1998 Bulletin, the following departments were listed: Agricultural Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering and Construction, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In 1998, a new building was added to the Engineering Center, Ehly Hall. As of the 1998-2000 Bulletin, Agricultural Engineering became the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Industrial Engineering became Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.. As of May 12, 1999 the NDSU Department of Electrical Engineering became the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As of the 2006-2008 Bulletin, the following departments are listed: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
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