Engineering in a Land-Grant Context is a volume of well-crafted essays that consider the federal government's first foray into higher education by examining engineering education at the nation's land-grant universities over the past 140 years. The authors demonstrate how that history has framed the present and suggest how it is likely to influence the fashioning of the future. The expert contributors, all of whom have studied and written prominently on the history of engineering education, concentrate on revealing the critical trends and major events of this 140-year history.
Author(s): Alan I Marcus
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 198
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I:Engineering and Agriculture......Page 16
Collegiate Conflict......Page 18
Creation of the Modern Land-Grant University......Page 38
Part II: Changing Land-Grant Engineering from the Outside......Page 60
Chemical Engineering, Accreditation, and the Land-Grant Colleges......Page 62
The End of "Try-and-Fly"......Page 88
Engineering National Defense......Page 116
Part III: Introspection: Land-Grant Engineering's Past as Future......Page 146
Reengineering the Land-Grant University......Page 148
Reinventing the Wheel......Page 174
Index......Page 198
