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Deans of the School of Engineering
The
School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
was established in 1932 as part of the reorganization of the Institute
recommended by President Karl Taylor Compton. As the largest of
MIT's three schools and two divisions at that time, the School of
Engineering brought together the Department of Building Engineering
and Construction (which became part of the Department of Civil and
Sanitary Engineering in 1934); the Department of Business Engineering
and Administration (which in 1950 separated from the school to become
the School of Industrial Management); the Department of Chemical
Engineering; the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering (which
in 1961 became the Department of Civil Engineering and in 1992 changed
its name to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering);
the Department of Electrical Engineering (which in 1975 became the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); the
Department of Mechanical Engineering; the Department of Mining and
Metallurgy (which split in 1936 into two departments: Mining Engineering,
which was discontinued in 1940, and Metallurgy, which became the
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science in 1967, and then
the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1974); the
Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (which became
the Department of Ocean Engineering in 1971, later merged into the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2005); the Department of
General Sciences and Engineering (which was discontinued in 1957);
and the Department of Nuclear Engineering (which was established
in 1958
and in 2004 changed its name to the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering).
The School of Engineering added the Department of Aeronautics in 1939 (it became the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1959) and two interdisciplinary divisions: Bioengineering and Environmental Health and the Engineering Systems Division in 1998. The latter division was renamed Biological Engineering in 2002 and became a department in 2007. Prepared
by the Institute Archives, MIT Libraries
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