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ARMOUR AND LEWIS UNITE |
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The Beginnings of IIT |
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| In the Chicago area, the master’s
degree in engineering has been obtainable only at Armour. This graduate
division already enrolls more than four hundred students, and is the
second largest in the United States. Increased emphasis will be given to
graduate work in both day and evening classes. For many years, Lewis Institute has maintained a successful course in home economics; this will be continued and developed further. It is felt that emphasis on the humanities and the social sciences is necessary to attain the broad objective of the Institute, which is to develop in its graduates wider intellectual interests than have commonly been found in graduates in technology. The agreement brings together the facilities and the staffs of two institutions which have long been engaged in research in the basic sciences and their engineering applications. It now becomes possible to combine these activities so that more important contributions to knowledge can be made. Research will be carried on by students and faculty in correlation with the educational program, and also through the continued activities of the Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology, which already has a record of three years of successful service to more than four hundred and fifty industrial organizations. It will be recalled that for many years pioneer work in cements and concrete was carried on at Lewis, and that it provided the basis for much of the design and technique involved in modern concrete structures and pavements. |
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| Page last updated on May 17, 2000. |
