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HISTORY OF COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

tion has decreased as the University expanded and new Colleges were established. The developments of the next forty-eight years (18901938) are so numerous and the number of persons involved is so great that it is impossible, within the available space, to do more than to mention briefly a few of the principal new undertakings of the College. Soon after 1890 the State's appropriations began to be increased; and, in general, they have continued to increase. JFor the whole University these five decades are characterized by the establishment of new Colleges and Schools, with a corresponding increase in the variety of courses of instruction and research. The University enrollment has increased from 469 in 1890 to 12,928 in March of the current year. In the College of Engineering the number of departments has increased from the five thus far cited to nine, which, with the dates of their establishment, are as follows:—

Ceramic Engineering, 1915 Civil Engineering, 1867 Electrical Engineering, 1890 General Engineering Drawing, 1^21 Mechanical Engineering, 1867 Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, re-established 1909 Physics, 1890 Railway Engineering, 1906 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1890

The Department of Architecture, authorized in 1867, remained, in the College of Engineering until 1931 when it was. removed and incorporated in the then newly-established College of Fine and Applied Arts. The Department of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, organized within this period has now been merged in the Civil Engineering Department and the curriculum there administered as an option. With the organization in 1892 of the University Graduate School, graduate work in engineering, as in the other colleges, received a great impetus; and is now offered in all but one of the nine engineering departments. . 17 .