Michigan Engineer

1850s

   1854

   First University of Michigan Engineering class held

   Ann Arbor's population is 3,339 

1860s

1861
Civil War begins

1870s

1875
Metallurgy recognized by University as a distinct discipline

1880s

1881

Mortimer Cooley establishes independent department of Mechanical Engineering

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Courses begin

First Michigan Engineering building on campus

 

1882
Mary Hegeler is first woman to graduate from U-M after studying engineering

1887
Fred B. Pelham is first African American to graduate from U-M with an engineering degree

 

1889  

Electrical Engineering courses begin

 

1890s

1895
Department of Engineering becomes independent from LS&A

1898
U-M Regents approve first course leading to BSE in Chemical Engineering

1900s

   1904

   New Engineering Building (West Engineering) completed

  
   Naval tow tank completed

 

1910s

1913

Michigan Engineering offers first automotive engineering course

1914
World War I begins

1916  

Aeronautical Engineering becomes nations first collegiate aeronautics program

1920s

1923
East Engineering building completed

1930s

1939
World War II begins

1940s

1950s

   1953

   Mortimer E. Cooley Building erected; first building on North Campus

 

   Nuclear Engineering offers nation's first graduate program in field

 

1955

Phoenix Memorial Laboratory completed

1957
CoE creates first solid-state maser, the precursor to the laser

G.G. Brown Building completed



1958
Department of Nuclear Engineering established

1960s

1964

CoE engineers display laser-transmitted hologram

1965

Two CoE grads orbit Earth in Gemini 4

 

1970s

1971
All-Michigan crew takes Apollo 15 to the moon

1980s

1982
Dow Building completed

1986

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building completed

 

1990s

1991
NSF grant launches CUOS

   1993
   Tauber Manufacturing Institute established

 

   FXB Building completed

 

1996
Curriculum 2000 initiated

 

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower and Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center become defining    landmarks on North Campus

 

NSF establishes Engineering Research Center in RMS

1999
InterPro established

2000s

2000
NSF establishes Engineering Research Center in WIMS

2000 - 2001
Coe and Shanghai Jiao Tong University form partnership

2002

Ann Lurie (LLD hon. '03) pledges $25 million to College of Engineering

 

2003
Gerstacker Building completed

2003 - 2004
150th Anniversary of Michigan Engineering

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