academic affairs

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This collection contains a catalog of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) library, course and lecture notes, syllabi, and problem sets and answer keys, often prepared by instructors and privately printed. Also included are video recordings of 6.001, the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes information on the PDP-1 computer, as well as general information about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering in the form of memos, publications, lists, graphs, statistics, forms, and correspondence. Recordings of seminars and colloquiums sponsored by the department from 1996, and 2000-2004 can be found in Series 4. Also included in the collection are administrative files of department heads Louis D. Smullin,1966-1974, Wilbur...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of student records kept by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1931-2009. Undergraduate student records folders may contain part of the MIT application; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades; professors' evaluations; and disciplinary actions. Graduate student records folders may contain MIT application; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades;...

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The collection comprises records created by the Department of Electrical Engineering Office of the Executive Director during the tenure of Carlton Tucker. Materials in the collection date from 1947 to 1969 and include curricula, teaching assignments, and memoranda.

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This collection contains student records kept by the Department of General Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930-1960.

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The collection contains exam questions and course notes from classes in the Department of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials are arranged chronologically and date from 1864 to 1922.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records received in 1977, boxes 1-3, 1936-1967, include the 1936 Report of the Committee on Curriculum for the Department of English and History, as well as later curriculum material including course notes and evaluations. Information on faculty includes lists of publications, correspondence, and memoranda. There is some budget material relating to grant proposals, and material from the Corporation visiting committees. Records received in 1980, boxes 4-7, 1964-1979, include...

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The collection contains student records kept by the Department of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1958-1980. The records include correspondence, administrative forms, grade reports, and transcripts from both withdrawn and graduated undergraduate students.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Linguistics and Philosophy records span from 1964 to 1998. The collection comprises grants and proposals, schedules, reports, course materials, and other administrative files. Also included in the collection are affirmative action-related records.

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The collection contains personnel files of visiting scholars and research fellows of the Linguistics and Philosophy Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Included are application forms, correspondence, and termination papers.

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This collection contains undergraduate and graduate student records kept by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1927-2016.

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The collection comprises records created by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from approximately 1955 to 2014. Records include correspondence, faculty files, lectures, OpenCourseWare videos, and subject files.

The collection also includes archived versions of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering website spanning from 2017 through the present.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mathematics curricula materials span from 1884 to 1979. The collection comprises primarily syllabi and course notes, with some examination questions.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of student records kept by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from circa 1940-2010. Materials are primarily graduate student records, although some undergraduate student records from the mid-1960s and earlier are interfiled. Folders may contain any of the following records: part of the MIT application; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades; professors' evaluations; correspondence with professors; thesis...

Scope and Contents Series 1 consists of printed copies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Annual Reports and Biennial Reports for the years 1977-1995. Series 2 documents the administrative history of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1942 to 1992 with emphasis on 1960-1985. A significant amount of information can be found concerning the department's facilities at MIT; funding requests; attempts to comply with federal and MIT policy regarding affirmative action hiring and enrollment;...

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The collection consists of student records kept by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1939-2015.

Scope and Contents In 1892-1894, when he was the professor of military science & tactics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Harry Leroy Hawthorne kept a notebook which includes his history of the Department of Military Science and Tactics, 1865-1893, and annual reports of the department for the years 1892-93 and 1893-94. Hawthorne was succeeded by John Bigelow who wrote an annual report for the year 1894-95. A number of other professors used the notebook to record information over the...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains volumes of laboratory instructions including diagrams, data sheets, and tabulated results of student laboratory experiments conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the period 1899 to 1926. The instructing staff of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy teaching the classes represented in this collection include Edward E. Bugbee (at MIT 1907-1937) and Rufus C. Reed (at MIT 1907-1944). Eight volumes of reports for their classes...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Mining Engineering undergraduate examinations in the subjects of mining engineering, geophysical prospecting, fire assaying, metallurgy, metallography, and radiography covering the period 1900 to 1943. There is a volume of student papers (class of 1888), and a set of course notes.Also included are Mining Engineering department circulars describing course offerings and span the years 1889 to 1928. The...

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The curricula collection of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consists of bound course notes, including reading lists and problem sets, for the years 1952-1989. Also included in the collections are qualifying examinations for doctoral candidates, answer booklets, and grades for the years 1964-1989.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Department of Nuclear Engineering was established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on July 1, 1958. However, study of Nuclear Engineering at MIT began as early as 1935. In 2000, the department developed the Center for Advanced Nuclear Engineering Systems along with the MIT Energy Laboratory (later renamed the MIT Energy Initiative). By 2004, the Department was renamed the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. This collection, spanning 1951 to 2009, includes...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of syllabi, schedules, reading lists, and handouts (copies of slides viewed in classes and readings) relating to course 20.610, Principles of Toxicology. This special ten week graduate course was partially sponbsored by a training grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It was designed to provide additional training to scientists and engineers already working in the field of toxicology, as well as introducing the subject to others who might be...