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The University of Tennessee College of Engineering celebrates 175 years of engineering at UT. Dr. Min H. Kao, an alumnus of the college, commits to a transformational gift of $17.5 million, with $12.5 designated toward the construction of a new state-of-the-art building to house the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) becomes the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science via the merger of ECE with the Department of Computer Science, originally an academic unit within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Maintenance and Reliability Center is established. Renamed the Reliability and Maintainability Center in recent years, the RMC bridges between industry and academia to provide education, research and development, and information exchange in the application of reliability and maintenance engineering tools and concepts. 1976 Masters and doctoral programs in polymer engineering are added to the college’s offerings. Professor R.C. Matthews, national secretary-treasurer of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary society, joins the UT mechanical engineering faculty and establishes the society’s headquarters on the UT campus. Dr. Way Kuo, a former associate dean at Texas A&M University, is named dean of engineering. The University of Tennessee College of Engineering’s origins date back to the 1800s, with the first engineering classes offered in 1838. Outstanding teachers and educators, innovative researchers, and transforming innovations are all part of engineering’s amazing 175 year journey at UT. Engineering was initially located in Reese Hall in 1888. Ten years later, classes were moved to Estabrook Hall. Over the next one hundred twenty five years, engineering moved from literally powering to intellectually powering the university. Currently, the college spans twelve buildings and stretches from the area north of Cumberland Avenue to Neyland Drive. The newest facility, the John D. Tickle Engineering Building, will be dedicated in October of 2013. The growing college serves the educational and research goals of almost four thousand students, faculty, and staff. The college’s progress in science and technology travels from the early courses in surveying and mechanical engineering to achievements that include internationally acclaimed initiatives in renewable energy; the development of microchips that helped to create the Curiosity Mars Rover, the most innovative outer-space probe in modern history; unique revolutions in computer software; and the discovery of advanced techniques in materials engineering. The college’s most outstanding achievements, however, are the thousands of young men and women who have received their engineering education at the University of Tennessee and have gone on to successful futures, and the unlimited contributions that they have made to their communities, the nation, and the world. Joseph Estabrook, a Dartmouth graduate with strong scientific interest and background, becomes president of East Tennessee College and hires a group of well-qualified professors. 1834 1838 1840 1862 1863 1868 1869 1877 The university is still closed, but now is occupied by the Union Troops. East Tennessee University is designated as Tennessee’s land grant institution in accordance with the Morrill Land Grant Act signed in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. The university reopens after the war ends. East Tennessee University is closed; the Confederate Army occupies the campus. East Tennessee College is renamed “East Tennessee University” by the state legislature and courses in civil engineering are offered for the first time. The Tennessee State Legislature officially names the institution The University of Tennessee. The advanced degrees of Civil Engineer and Mining Engineer are offered. Four-year bachelor’s degrees are offered in civil, mechanical, and mining engineering. The Electrical Engineering program is established. Estabrook Hall is constructed to initially house the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts. 1879 1880 1895 1898 1904 1905 1907 Engineering instruction is consolidated in a Department of Engineering and Mechanic Arts. 1912 1914 1922 1925 1926 1930 1936 1946 1949 Mining engineering program discontinued. The Engineering Experiment Station is established to coordinate expanding research efforts. The university’s power plant is constructed on The Hill next to Estabrook Hall. Ferris Hall is constructed. The Department of Chemical Engineering is established. The first wave of World War II veterans enters the university on the G.I. Bill. Enrollment explodes in almost all colleges. Perkins Hall is built. Professor Nathan W. Dougherty is appointed as the second dean of engineering. The college greatly expanded under his term, which lasted until 1956. 1940 1951 1952 1956 1963 1974 1965 1948 1966 1970 1972 1973 1981 1983 1992 1996 1997 1984 2000 2003 2007 2006 2010 2013 2012 2008 2011 2005 1985 1968 Professor Armor T. Granger is named dean of engineering. The college establishes the Nathan W. Dougherty Award in honor of Dean Dougherty. It is given to individuals who are outstanding representatives in the field of engineering. An interdisciplinary doctoral program in engineering science is added to support the growing involvement of the university in cooperative research with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and AEDC. The university’s Board of Trustees authorizes the granting of PhD degrees with majors in chemical engineering and in metallurgy–the first engineering doctoral degrees in Tennessee. 1957 The University of Tennessee Space Institute is established from the resident graduate programs at AEDC. Aerospace engineering is officially indoctrinated into the mechanical engineering department, which is renamed the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Fred N. Peebles is named dean of engineering. Dr. Charles H. Weaver is named dean of engineering. He is the first dean to hold a doctoral degree. The Department of Industrial Engineering is established. Doctoral programs in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineering are established. The Center for Transportation Research (CTR) is founded. CTR’s mission is to conduct research on all aspects of transportation. A doctoral program in civil engineering is established. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is established. The Center for Materials Processing (CMP) is created as a Center of Excellence through the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. CMP works with students, researchers, and industry professionals to promote education, research, engineering, manufacturing, and technology transfer in the area of materials. Dr. Robert E.C. Weaver is named dean of engineering. Dr. William T. Snyder is named dean of engineering. Dean Snyder would go on to become Chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1992 and served in that role until 2001. Dr. Jerry E. Stoneking is named dean of engineering. The college established the Jerry E. Stoneking Engage Engineering Fundamentals Program for freshman students through a major grant from the National Science Foundation. This unique program still offers entering engineering students opportunities for hands-on projects, team learning, and mentoring by upperclassmen. The Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF) is constructed. The building houses laboratories and classrooms for both the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. Doctoral programs are established in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. The programs are introduced into the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, which is renamed the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. In partnership with Siemens Medical Solutions Medical Imaging, the college establishes the Scintillation Materials Research Center (SMRC), a new $4 million center that specializes in the growth and characterization of scintillation materials. Dr. Wayne T. Davis, an interim dean, associate dean for research and technology, and a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is named dean of engineering. The Center for Ultra- wide-area Resilient Electric Transmission Networks is established with a five-year, $18 million award from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy. CURENT is focused on research, education, and technology for sustainable energy systems with an emphasis on power transmission systems. The Department of Nuclear Engineering is established. An engineering subject, Surveying, is offered for the first time. The university is organized into three schools: Agriculture and the Organic Arts; Mechanic Arts, Mining, and Engineering; and Languages and Fine Arts. Courses are offered in mechanical and mining engineering. The engineering academic unit is renamed the College of Engineering, with Professor Charles A. Perkins as the chairman of the faculty. The college holds its first Engineers Day; the event was initially established for students to help clean up the campus. Engineers Day now serves as a recruiting venue and over 1,200 students visit the campus each October to learn more about the field of engineering. The Cooperative Engineering Program (now the Engineering Professional Practice Program) is established. The program offers students an opportunity to combine both academic study and professional work experience. Professor Charles E. Ferris is named the first dean of engineering. UT offers graduate programs in engineering at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tenn. The Dougherty Engineering Building is constructed. The college establishes the Minority Engineering Scholarship Program (MESP) in cooperation with industry to increase the number of underrepresented students enrolled in engineering studies. The program is later incorporated as the basis for the college’s Engineering Diversity Programs (EDP) office. A highly successful program, EDP celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2013. The university’s power plant is renovated to house the Department of Nuclear Engineering and is named the Pasqua Engineering Building. The University of Tennessee joins with Battelle to take over management of ORNL. The COE dedicates the new Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building in a gala event on March 14, 2012, with Dr. and Mrs. Kao in attendance. The college breaks ground on the John D. Tickle Engineering Building. The new facility will house the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The John D. Tickle Engineering Building is officially dedicated. Distinguished History. Dynamic Present. Bright Future. 175 Years of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
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The University of Tennessee College of Engineering celebrates 175 years of engineering at UT.
Dr. Min H. Kao, an alumnus of the college, commits to a transformational gift of $17.5 million, with $12.5 designated toward the construction of a
new state-of-the-art building to house the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) becomes the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science via the merger of ECE with the Department of Computer Science, originally an academic unit within the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Maintenance and Reliability Center is established. Renamed the Reliability
and Maintainability Center in recent years, the RMC bridges between industry and academia to provide education, research and development, and information exchange in the application of reliability and maintenance engineering tools and concepts.
1976
Masters and doctoral programs in polymer engineering are added to the college’s offerings.
Professor R.C. Matthews, national secretary-treasurer of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honorary society, joins the UT mechanical engineering faculty and establishes the society’s headquarters on the UT campus.
Dr. Way Kuo, a former associate dean at Texas A&M University, is named dean of engineering.
The University of Tennessee College of Engineering’s origins date back to the 1800s, with the first engineering classes offered in 1838. Outstanding teachers and educators, innovative researchers, and transforming innovations are all part of engineering’s amazing 175 year journey at UT.
Engineering was initially located in Reese Hall in 1888. Ten years later, classes were moved to Estabrook Hall. Over the next one hundred twenty five years, engineering moved from literally powering to intellectually powering the university. Currently, the college spans twelve buildings and stretches from the area north of Cumberland Avenue to Neyland Drive. The newest facility, the John D. Tickle Engineering Building, will be dedicated in October of 2013. The growing college serves the educational and research goals of almost four thousand students, faculty, and staff.
The college’s progress in science and technology travels from the early courses in surveying and mechanical engineering to achievements that include internationally acclaimed initiatives in renewable energy; the development of microchips that helped to create the Curiosity Mars Rover, the most innovative outer-space probe in modern history; unique revolutions in computer software; and the discovery of advanced techniques in materials engineering.
The college’s most outstanding achievements, however, are the thousands of young men and women who have received their engineering education at the University of Tennessee and have gone on to successful futures, and the unlimited contributions that they have made to their communities, the nation, and the world.
Joseph Estabrook, a Dartmouth graduate with strong scientific interest and background, becomes president of East Tennessee College and hires a group of well-qualified professors.
1834
1838
1840
1862
1863
1868
1869
1877
The university is still closed, but now is occupied by the Union Troops.
East Tennessee University is designated as Tennessee’s land grant institution in accordance with the Morrill Land Grant Act signed in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.
The university reopens after the war ends.
East Tennessee University is closed; the Confederate Army occupies the campus.
East Tennessee College is renamed “East Tennessee University” by the state legislature and courses in civil engineering are offered for the first time.
The Tennessee State Legislature officially names the institution The University of Tennessee. The advanced degrees of Civil Engineer and Mining Engineer are offered.
Four-year bachelor’s degrees are offered in civil, mechanical, and mining engineering.
The Electrical Engineering program is established.
Estabrook Hall is constructed to initially house the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts.
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Engineering instruction is consolidated in a Department of Engineering and Mechanic Arts.
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Mining engineering program discontinued.
The Engineering Experiment Station is established to coordinate expanding research efforts.
The university’s power plant is constructed on The Hill next to Estabrook Hall.
Ferris Hall is constructed.
The Department of Chemical Engineering is established.
The first wave of World War II veterans enters the university on the G.I. Bill. Enrollment explodes in almost all colleges.
Perkins Hall is built.
Professor Nathan W. Dougherty is appointed as the second dean of engineering. The college greatly expanded under his term, which lasted until 1956.
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Professor Armor T. Granger is named dean of engineering.
The college establishes the Nathan W. Dougherty Award in honor of Dean Dougherty. It is given to individuals who are outstanding representatives in the field of engineering.
An interdisciplinary doctoral program in engineering science is added to support the growing involvement of the university in cooperative research with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and AEDC.
The university’s Board of Trustees authorizes the granting of PhD degrees with majors in chemical engineering and in metallurgy–the first engineering doctoral degrees in Tennessee.
1957
The University of Tennessee Space Institute is established from the resident graduate programs at AEDC.
Aerospace engineering is officially indoctrinated into the mechanical engineering department, which is renamed the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Fred N. Peebles is named dean of engineering.
Dr. Charles H. Weaver is named dean of engineering. He is the first dean to hold a doctoral degree.
The Department of Industrial Engineering is established.
Doctoral programs in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineering are established.
The Center for Transportation Research (CTR) is founded. CTR’s mission is to conduct research on all aspects of transportation.
A doctoral program in civil engineering is established.
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is established.
The Center for Materials Processing (CMP) is created as a Center of Excellence through the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. CMP works with students, researchers, and industry professionals to promote education, research, engineering, manufacturing, and technology transfer in the area of materials.
Dr. Robert E.C. Weaver is named dean of engineering.
Dr. William T. Snyder is named dean of engineering. Dean Snyder would go on to become Chancellor
of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1992 and served in that role until 2001.
Dr. Jerry E. Stoneking is named dean of engineering.
The college established the Jerry E. Stoneking Engage Engineering Fundamentals Program for freshman students through a major grant from the National Science Foundation. This unique program still offers entering engineering students opportunities for hands-on projects, team learning, and mentoring by upperclassmen.
The Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF) is constructed. The building houses laboratories and classrooms for both the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Doctoral programs are established in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. The programs are introduced into the mechanical and
aerospace engineering department, which is renamed the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering.
In partnership with Siemens Medical Solutions Medical Imaging, the college establishes the Scintillation Materials Research Center (SMRC), a new $4 million center that specializes in the growth and characterization of scintillation materials.
Dr. Wayne T. Davis, an interim dean, associate dean for research and technology, and a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is named dean of engineering.
The Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Transmission Networks is established with a five-year, $18 million award from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy. CURENT is focused on research, education, and technology for sustainable energy systems with an emphasis on power transmission systems.
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The Department of Nuclear Engineering is established.
An engineering subject, Surveying, is offered for the first time.
The university is organized into three schools: Agriculture and the Organic Arts; Mechanic Arts, Mining, and Engineering; and Languages and Fine Arts. Courses are offered in mechanical and mining engineering.
The engineering academic unit is renamed the College of Engineering, with Professor Charles A. Perkins as the chairman of the faculty.
The college holds its first Engineers Day; the event was initially established for students to help clean up the campus. Engineers Day now serves as a recruiting venue and over 1,200 students visit the campus each October to learn more about the field of engineering.
The Cooperative Engineering Program (now the Engineering Professional Practice Program) is established. The program offers students an opportunity to combine both academic study and professional work experience.
Professor Charles E. Ferris is named the first dean of engineering.
UT offers graduate programs in engineering at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tenn.
The Dougherty Engineering Building is constructed.
The college establishes the Minority Engineering Scholarship Program (MESP) in cooperation
with industry to increase the number of underrepresented students enrolled in engineering studies. The program is later incorporated as the basis for the college’s Engineering Diversity Programs (EDP) office. A highly successful program, EDP celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2013.
The university’s power plant is renovated to house the Department of Nuclear Engineering and is named the Pasqua Engineering Building.
The University of Tennessee joins with Battelle to take over management of ORNL.
The COE dedicates the new Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building in a gala event on March 14, 2012, with Dr. and Mrs. Kao in attendance.
The college breaks ground on the John D. Tickle Engineering Building. The new facility will house the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
The John D. Tickle Engineering Building is officially dedicated.
Distinguished History. Dynamic Present. Bright Future.
175 Years of Engineering at the University of Tennessee
