11/5/1 Guide to the Departmental Subject File Departmental Subject File

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Guide to the Departmental Subject File 1912/1962 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Departmental Subject File 1912-1962 11/5/1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Civil Engineering 9.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

The 1867 Committee of the Regent and the Board of Trustees made provision for Civil Engineering instruction1 but the department did not become a separate unit until after 1871 when Professor J.B. Webb was appointed to the Professorship of Civil Engineering.2 In 1871 there were 21 students enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering.3

In 1876, the Trustees defined the object of the school as "to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, accompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, which will enable students to enter intelligently upon the various and important duties of an engineer." Their report included statements on instructions, course of studies, technical studies, drawing, projects, apparatus and courses.4

On January 30, 1906, the Trustees created a Department of Railway Engineering.5 On January 23, 1907, the Trustees established the School of Railway Engineering and Administration.6 In 1926, the Department took over the work of the Department of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering which had been organized in 1890.7

In February 1989, the Departments of Metallurgy and Mining Engineering and Ceramic Engineering were merged to form the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. See also Subgroup 11/9.8

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 1st Report, May 8, 1867, pp. 42, 50-51.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 5th Report, Nov. 1, 1871, p. 149.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 4th Report, 1870-71, p. 14.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 8th Report, 1874-76, pp. 44-47.

5. Board of Trustees Transactions, 23rd Report, Jan. 30, 1906, p. 315.

6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 24th Report, Jan. 23, 1907, p. 70.

7. Board of Trustees Transactions, 34th Report, July 7, 1926, p. 3; Board of Trustees Transactions, 17th Report, 1892-94, p. 332.

8. Board of Trustees Transactions, 64th Report, February 4, 1988, pp 466-67.

Access Terms

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

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: American Society of Civil Engineers Army Specialized Training Program Big Muddy River Boneyard Bridges Budget Chicago Art Institute Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Department Computers Concrete Construction Consolidated Vultee Corporation Course Materials Digital Computer Laboratory Earthquake Engineering Encyclopedias Engineering Education Engineering Experiment Station Engineering Instruction Engineering Research Engineering, College of Fellowships Foreign Students Highway Construction Highway Drainage Highway Engineering Highways History of Architecture Housing Hydraulic Engineering Hydraulics Hydraulics Research Illiac Computers Illinois State Highways Division Kaskaskia River Navy Research Non-Recurring Appropriations Committee Panama Canal Soil Mechanics Staff Lists Structural Engineering Student Employment Surveying Turkey -- Education University Council Works Progress Administration World War II -- Service and Training
Administrative Information Accruals:

10/26/81

Arrangement of Materials:

alphabetical by subject

Scope and Contents

Departmental Subject File including correspondence, contracts, annual (1934-55) and statistical (1941-46) reports, course material of department heads Whitney C. Huntington (1926-56) and Nathan M. Newmark (1956-73) relating to American Society of Civil Engineers meetings, symposia and committees (1935-62); atomic waste disposal (1951); budgets (1947-55); Civil Engineering Department; computer projects, budgets and space (1947-59); engineering education; professional degrees (1930-54); expansion joints (1937-46); Graduate College curricula and financial aid (1946-55); highway design and research; housing; hydraulics research; investigations of the Big Muddy (1934-43) and Kaskaskia (1937-51) rivers, military training (1942-54); non-recurring expenditures (1958-60); Panama Canal (1940-44); sanitary engineering (1936-54); soil mechanics (1941-54); summer sessions; summer surveying camps (1912-24, 1945-52); Turkish students (1942-46); University Council (1938-51).