Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Records, 1910-2013

Creator:

College of Engineering

Scope and content:

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering series contains three boxes consisting of material from the department. It includes faculty portraits, class profiles, Rathbone Hall construction photos, graduate and faculty meeting minutes, an Electrical Engineering Scrapbook, and various pictures and slides documenting different activities and student organizations including Engineering Open House and the Engineering Advisory Council.

Biographical / historical:

The beginning of Kansas State University’s College of Engineering dates to 1866 when a four-year course in Mechanic Arts was initiated, and by 1875 the Shop Building (now Seaton Court) was built to house the growing program. The Department of Mechanics and Engineering was organized in 1877 and the department stayed in that configuration until 1898 when it was separated into the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1909 the first wing of the Engineering Building (now Seaton Hall) was built to house the newly organized Division of Mechanic Arts. This division became the Division of Engineering in 1917 and in 1942 the division was transformed into the School of Engineering and Architecture. In 1963 K-State reorganized again, and the College of Engineering was formed with architecture in a separate college. Currently the College of Engineering occupies the Durland-Rathbone-Fiedler Engineering Complex, having moved in 1976 when Phase 1 of Durland Hall was complete. In 2018, the College became the first named college at K-State, becoming the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, in honor of Carl and Mary Ice. Deans of the College – 1908 – 1913: E.B. McCormick, as Dean of Mechanic Arts 1913 – 1920: Andrey A. Porter, as Dean of Mechanic Arts then Engineering in 1917 1920 – 1949: Roy A. Seaton 1949 – 1961: Merrill A. Durland 1961 – 1963: John W. Shupe, as acting Dean 1963 – 1967: Paul E. Russell, first Dean of the College of Engineering 1967 – 1973: Ralph G. Nevins 1973 – 1997: Donald E. Rathbone 1997 – 2006: Terry S. King 2006 – 2007: Richard R. Gallagher, as interim Dean 2007 – 2013: John R. English 2013 – 2014: Gary Clark, as interim Dean 2014 – 2019: Darren Dawson 2019 – 2020: Gary Clark, as interim Dean 2020 – present: Matt O’Keefe

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