academic departments

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, photographs, and reports relating to the establishment of the summer surveying camp run by the Department of Civil Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The camp was located in East Machias, Maine and was known informally as "Camp Technology." In addition to records of the committee planning the establishment of the camp, there is also information on the camp's operations in it's first 20 years.

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises records created by the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1989 to 2008. The collection also contains archived versions of the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department and CMS program websites.

Materials include: undergraduate and graduate syllabi, posters, articles, and research materials.

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises records created within the Concourse Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1971 to 1996. Included in the collection are archived versions of the Concourse Program website spanning from 2017 through the present.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains examinations and course notes prepared for 16.501 (Aerodynamics of a Compressible Fluid).

Scope and Contents The collection consists of student records kept by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1920-2009. Undergraduate student folders may contain part of the student application; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades; professors' evaluations; and disciplinary actions. Graduate student folders may contain MIT applications; reports on academic standing, including copies of grades; correspondence with professors...

Scope and Contents

The collection contains graduate student records including grade transcripts, correspondence about academic performance, and thesis topics kept by the Department of Applied Biological Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1972-1991.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection consists of the administrative records and publications of the Department of Applied Biological Sciences (ABS) and its predecessors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Records from the administrative office include correspondence, memos, departmental reports on safety, and lists of faculty and graduate students. Records from the department head's office include faculty meetings with agendas and notes, departmental policies and issues, and files relating...

Scope and Contents of the Collection A notable item in this collection is a document of 1866, Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction, a pamphlet by William R. Ware, the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) It discusses early plans for an architecture curriculum in the beginning years of MIT. The curricula collection was assembled from a variety of sources in the MIT Libraries. More complete information about classes in all years...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains faculty records kept by the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Scope and Contents

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Biological Engineering records date from 1984 to 2004. Collection materials include enrollment statistics, faculty presentations and research summaries, fellowship records, and administrative files.

Scope and Contents

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Biology records span 1883 to 2017. Records include research summaries, annual reports, course brochures, Conversations with Scientists videos, and an archived version of the Department of Biology website.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains student records kept by the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1941-2008.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection of the records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Business and Engineering Administration, Course 15. Materials in boxes 1 to 6 were created by Erwin H. Schell, who was the first Business Management faculty member hired, and the first head of department. Schell was hired in 1917 and taught and directed Course 15 until his retirement in 1951. Records in boxes 1 and 2 consist of 17 volumes of outlines, reading lists, examinations, lecture notes and...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains bound student reports from the School of Chemical Engineering Practice stations (1917-1961), and photograph albums from the school's Mt. Katahdin trips (1930-1935) and other activities (1958-1972). Bound volumes of materials used in department classes include course descriptions and schedules; class handouts; problem sets and solutions; copies of quizzes, project assignments, and reports; and evaluation forms. There is also some information about department...

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of personnel records of faculty and some academic staff kept by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1968-1992. Materials includes letters of appointment, salary information, curricula vitae, correspondence, writings and publications, and termination forms.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Administrative records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Chemical Engineering include annual reports, records of MIT and departmental committees, correspondence with MIT administrative officers, departments, and centers, and professional organizations, including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Cancer Society, and the Engineers' Council for Professional Development. Included are correspondence and memoranda about the curriculum and course...

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of undergraduate and graduate student records kept by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1922-2013. Undergraduate records include grade transcripts and correspondence about academic requirements and performance. Graduate records also include applications and information about theses.

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises Department of Chemistry curricula dating from 1877 to 1985.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection has two series. Series 1 is administrative records. Series 2 includes building plans for and a booklet about the River Hydraulics Laboratory and specifications for the Hydrodynamics Laboratory.

The digital material in the collection is found in Series 1. It consists of recordings to a conference comprising mostly RealMedia videos and an html file. Also in this series is the archived website of the Department.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of student records created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Undergraduate student folders may contain grade transcripts and correspondence about academic requirements and performance. Graduate student folders may contain applications, grade transcripts, and correspondence about academic requirements, performance, and theses.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection contains course notes for the Civil Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The bulk of the material dates from 1890 through 1917, including notes for courses on hydraulics and theory of structures (George Swain), stereotomy and warped surfaces (Dwight Porter), highways (Frederick E. Foss), and railroad engineering.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, clippings, photographs, and audio and video cassettes pertaining to the administrative functions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises student records maintained by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Student records in the collection were for undergraduate and graduate students that graduated between 1947 and 1996. Official student records are maintained by the Office of the Registrar.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Most of the records were created while Robert Lyle Bishop (1958-1964) and Edgar Cary Brown (1964-1982) were heads of the department. The collection contains correspondence, plans, reports, and studies on affirmative action; and information about department committees, changes in the graduate and undergraduate curricula, and visiting committees. Included is a department history with lists of all faculty and student evaluations of courses. Also included is Brown's correspondence with the...