11/8/810 Guide to the Research Reports and Summaries Research Reports and Summaries

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Guide to the Research Reports and Summaries 1955/9999 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Research Reports and Summaries 1955- 11/8/810 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 0.60 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

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.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Topical Term: Mechanical Engineering Research
Administrative Information Accruals:

September, 1965

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Printed and duplicated research reports on projects conducted by the department concerning humidity and air conditioning, cooling research, small pipe hydronics and flow mechanism and heat transfer (NASA Grant NSG-13-59).  This series also contains reprints of the mechanical engineering section of A Summary of Engineering Research.

Reports include research on fluid flow (AF 18 (600)-392), the mechanism of tool wear (U.S. Army, Contract DA-11-022-ORD-1980) and a survey of coal-related research (1974).