Finding Aid for M&IE Alumni Affairs and News Subject File, 1917-1997 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: M&IE Alumni Affairs and News Subject File, 1917-1997

ID: 11/8/9

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Extent: 6.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: By Topic, and either Chronological or Alphabetical Thereunder

Subjects: Alumni, Alumni Association, Engineering, College of, Engineering Graduates, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Volleyball

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

M&IE Alumni Affairs and News Subject File contains correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, photographs, and publications concerning the  activities of the Alumni Board of the M&IE Constituent Group of the Alumni Association (1967-1996); biographical information on alumni, department heads, and faculty; Bullring (1990), Annual Reports of the Department (1965-1968), departmental history, Networkers (support Group for Illini Volleyball, 1986-1992), COPE Committee Special Review (1987); and photographs of the foundry, laboratory, and machinery.

The 1867 Catalogue of the Illinois Industrial University listed Mechanical Science and Art in the Polytechnic Department.¹ In 1870, the first professor of the Department of Mechanical Science was appointed to the Chair of Mechanical Science and Engineering.²

On September 1, 1940, the Department of Railway Engineering was discontinued and some of its courses and faculty were transferred to the Mechanical Engineering Department.³ A new curriculum leading to a B.S. in Industrial Engineering began to be administered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1952.⁴ The name of the department was changed in 1960 to the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.⁵

1. Catalogue and Circular, 1867, p. 6.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 3rd Report, March 8, 1870, p. 47.

3. Ibid., 40th Report, June 28, 1940, p. 971

4. Ibid., 46th Report, March 12, 1952, pp. 1410-11

5. Ibid., 50th Report, April 20, 1960, p. 1257.

Alumni
Alumni Association
Engineering, College of
Engineering Graduates
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Department
Volleyball

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 1/30/1998

Other Note: 7 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1108009.pdf

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