Engineering -- Study and teaching
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
C. Richard Soderberg papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0023
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of C. Richard Soderberg document his education through student notes from schools in Sweden, including the Chalmers Institute of Technology, and material on his MIT thesis. Extensive subject files describe his activities as a member of the MIT faculty, including participation on committees, and his involvement with industry and professional organizations. There are copies of his lecture notes, as well as a set of his published and unpublished writings. There is a large file of...
Dates:
1914 - 1979
Dugald C. Jackson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0005
Abstract
The collection documents the career of Dugald C. Jackson, a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1907 to 1935. Correspondence, reports, and other materials document Jackson's years as head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, his innovations in the department and the undergraduate curriculum, the establishment of a cooperative education program (course 6-A), and his work on MIT committees. His work as a consulting engineer and inventor is...
Dates:
1878 - 1952
Eric Brater student notes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0331
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of Eric Brater's student notes from undergraduate courses taken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on applied mechanics, materials science, chemistry, physics, and heat and hydraulic engineering.
Dates:
Circa 1923
Gordon Stanley Brown papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0024
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Gordon Stanley Brown collection documents Brown's career as teacher, research engineer, and administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecture notes, problem sets, and other teaching materials describe his course Theory and Applications of Servomechanisms, first taught in 1940. A summary of wartime activity, as well as correspondence, describes Brown's role as founder and director of the Servomechanisms Laboratory. Correspondence and reports document his relationship...
Dates:
1920 - 1984
Harold L. Hazen papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0106
Abstract
Harold Locke Hazen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a member of the MIT faculty from 1931 to 1972, serving as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1938-1951, and Dean of the Graduate School, 1952-1967. His work was in the field of machine computation, automatic control, and servomechanisms. During World War II he was head of Division 7, Fire Control, of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). The collection contains research notes and...
Dates:
1920 - 1980
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Commission on Engineering Undergraduate Education records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0234
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leaders for Manufacturing Program records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0532
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises records produced by the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1988 to 1995.
Dates:
1988 - 1995
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of Engineering Outreach Programs records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0565
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The records of the MITES (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science) Program include student files, correspondence and records pertaining to program operations, and information about companies, individuals who contributed to or are affiliated with the MITES program, and video and audio recordings of MITES events. Also included are student files from the STEM and MSBP programs.The collection also includes an archived version of the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs...
Dates:
1974 - 2008, 2017; Majority of material found within 1974 - 2008
William Walther Seifert papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0006
Scope and Contents
Collection includes contracts, correspondence, memoranda, proposals, and reports documenting Seifert's MIT research projects, including Project TRANSPORT, 1964-1971; studies of the Boston Harbor, 1965-1968, the New England Coastal Zone, 1969-1975, and the Sahel-Sudan region of Africa, 1973-1974; also administrative records describing his role on various MIT committees, including the Administrative Staff Review Committee, the Engineering Council, doctoral committees, and in the organization...
Dates:
1955 - 1975