Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Physics
Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics addition to records, 1906-1978.
Includes correspondence, reports, minutes, budget, financial, and other records relating to the administration of the Division. Among the concerns and activities dealt with are grants and contracts (e.g., with the Advanced Research Projects Agency), students and teaching, personnel, committees, and other matters. Also includes records relating to contracts with individuals and organizaitons outside the University. Included (among others) are the records from the tenure of Harvey Brooks as Division dean.
The Harvard Engineering School was established with its own faculty in 1918, offering both graduate and undergraduate instruction. The Graduate and Undergraduate Schools of Engineering were created in 1932 although after 1935 undergraduate engineering students were registered in Harvard College. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences maintained a department or division of engineering sciences, apparently continuously from the time such divisions first were introduced into the Faculty in the 1890s. In 1946, this became the Division of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics and was involved in both undergraduate and graduate instruction. The Graduate School of Engineering merged with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1949; the Division of Engineering Sciences was created, comprising the Department of Engineering and the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics. The Division of Engineering Sciences became the Division of Applied Science in 1951 and the two departments were dissolved. In 1955 it was renamed the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, and in 1977 became the Division of Applied Sciences.
Brooks, Harvey
Harvard University -- Research grants.
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Study and teaching
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.