The College of Engineering at Penn State: A Century in the Land-Grant Tradition

by Michael Bezilla

Penn State's contribution to the training of engineers since the University's designation as the Commonwealth's land-grant institution, 1863, is presented here in national perspective. After a slow beginning - the first engineering course listed in 1868-69, the first engineering department (civil) founded in 1881, the first engineering degree granted in 1884 - came a century of steady and varied growth. A mechanical engineering department was added...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015500
• ISBN13: 9780271015507
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.