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ARMOUR AND LEWIS UNITE |
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The Beginnings of IIT |
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| The new institution will provide for
integration of the educational work in the fields of science, engineering,
management, and the humanities, now carried on in the two colleges. Both
schools will contribute important features to a program superior to what
would be easily practicable for either working alone. Control will be by a
Board of Trustees of Armour and of Lewis. The educational program will have as its basis a foundation of the sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, and biology. The engineering curricula will include civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and fire protection engineering. An expansion of the work in the division of architecture and applied art now becomes possible through the union of the two colleges and the fact that architects of international reputation have recently been added to the staff of Armour. The department of biology already in operation at Lewis will bring added strength to the work in sanitary engineering which has recently been given increased facilities at Armour. A comprehensive program of public health engineering is thereby made possible. Emphasis will be placed upon industrial management, to meet the increasing demands of industry for men with this training and for research in the field of management and personnel. The present Armour cooperative course in mechanical engineering will be continued. It is about to enter its fifth year, and has been notably successful, as indicated by the present enrollment of three hundred students who are employed by one hundred and ten industrial corporations in the Chicago area. The new Institute has had twenty-five years of experience in the teaching of aeronautics and aeronautical engineering. Pilot training now in operation under the sponsorship of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and research projects sponsored by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, combined with new facilities that will result from the merger, will enable the institution to assume an important position in teaching and research in aeronautics. One of the most important functions of the new school will be to provide greater opportunities for adult education by offering college courses to young men and women who are earning their living. The evening curricula in the adult education division will offer the degree of Bachelor of Science in all the major fields of engineering, arts, and science. |
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| Page last updated on May 17, 2000. |
