Academics, 1929-1947
war multiplied the needs for engineering graduates in the Air Corps, the Sanitary Corps, the Signal Corps, the Specialists Corps and others, as well as the traditional Marine Corps, Army and Navy.
Departments, 1929-1947
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering, 1925-1939
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1939-1967
- Department of Physics
- Department of Mathematics and Astronomy
- split into Department of Mathematics and Department of Astronomy in 1930
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Metallurgy
- Metallurgical and Mining Engineering, 1921-1931
- Department of Electric Engineering
- Department of Geology and Mineralogy
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
An additional new building was built for the department and completed in 1939. The building was named after CSAS alumn and later faculty A.W Smith.In 1942, the department graduated the first PhD in Chemical Engineering.
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Department of Physics
Physics department continued to update its curriculum offerings and introduced new courses in Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Harmonic Analysis, Electronic Vacuum Tubes, General Spectroscopy, Radiation, and Quantum Theory by 1933. In 1933, the department built a 20 foot tower on the roof of the physics building to study lightening photography. In 1946, the department added a program in Nuclear Physics.In 1933, the department hired the first female, Jean Filmore, who was hired as the departmental secretary.
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Department of Mathematics
In 1930, the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy separate into the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Astronomy. In 1938, the Department of Mathematics awarded first M.S. in Mathematics and in 1946, the department starts the PhD program.
Courses in Mathematics were enlarged to include Vector Analysis, Modern Geometry, Advanced Calculus , Theory of Equations, Graphic Calculus and Monography, Higher and Linear Algebra, Theory of Numbers and Invariants, Differential Geometry, Theory of Functions of Complex Variables, Infinite Sines and Products, and Calculus of Variations.
In 1945, the department created the Mathematics Laboratory, consisting of initial “tech” equipment. Two years later, the laboratory adds a Marchant calculator and a slide projector. This laboratory was the precursor of the computer science at Case School.
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Department of Astronomy
In 1930, the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy separate into the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Astronomy. The Astronomy department had two faculty members with Dr. Christian Nassau as the head of the department. By 1946, the two faculty, Dr. Nassau and Dr. Brown completed their star charts for navigation. The chart is known as the Brown-Nassau star finder and was well received by the Hydrographic Office of the Navy.The increased interest in astronomy made the new Warner & Swasey Observatory inadequate. In 1939, the Observatory was enlarged and additional equipment was added to the facility. The enlarged Observatory included an auditorium for public lectures and large class meetings, an exhibit hall containing models and transparencies, and more space for library, shop, offices and measuring instruments, as well as a large dome to house the 24-36 inch Schmidt-type telescope constructed and donated by the Warner and Swasey Company.
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Department of Civil Engineering
1933 Prof George Barnes joined in 1931 (until 1955) - head of ECIV . He developed the hydraulics and sanitary laboratory, the structural models laboratory, the concrete laboratory, the highways laboratory and the Civil Engineering Department Library. He also supervised the design and construction of campus paving and construction of the Lilac Drive stairway. He was much engaged on model studies conducted for the United States Corps of Engineers in designing fifteen dams for flood control in the Muskingum Valley. Civil Engineering sees an increase in student numbers, facilities and equipment expanded, course offered increased - the dept occupied the first two floors of the Warner BuildingIn 1938, Case Camp was relocated to Mohican State Forest near Loudonville. The first assignment of the summer campers was to do a topographical survey of the 2,500 acres for the state in advance of the next objective of Case students, laying out roads, bridges and reforestation projects.
| The Case that was: Camp days Written by the late Carl S. Bacik ’48 for the fall 2007 Case Alumnus. Camp Case in Loudonville, Ohio, was at one time a rite of passage for every Case engineering student. For two memorable weeks, sandwiched between the last days of summer and the start of the fall semester, groups of engineering students came together to learn how to solve complicated engineering problems. Operating as teams and using transits and levels to shoot elevation lines and plot topography, the students worked together to master the complex skills that one day would be required of them in their chosen professions. Each morning, after sleeping in tents, the students would arise to calisthenics,followed by breakfast. Then they'd take to the streets to tackle the engineering exercise of the day. Their exercises would often take them into the woods and down roads specifically set aside for their work. Students were not allowed to bring cars to the camp.
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1939
Civil Engineering: two conference held at Case - Regional Conference on Highway Eng & National Conf of Surveying Teachers
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Department of Metallurgy
1931 Mining engineering is discontinued Mining and Metallurgy Department is renamed to Department of MetallurgyGraduate courses offered in Metallurgy in 1931-32 included: Blast Furnace Cost and Operation, Open Hearth Operation and Design, Industrial Furnaces, Advanced Metallograpqy, Hydro Metallurgy of Copper, Ingots and Ingot Molds, Applied X-Ray Spectrometryo
1932 Metallurgy Library consists of 2150 bound volumes, 1500 periodicals and 30 periodicals.
1941
Metallurgy Department becomes active in Engineering Defense Training Metallurgy building is improved and new lab equiptment is purchased
1942
The first Ph.D. in Metallurgy is granted to Harry P. Croft (not a student)
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Department of Electrical Engineering
1932Graduate courses expanded, research activties of staff continued to increase. Additional undergraduate courses added. In 1932 the curriculum was altered further to permit two major options, an engineering or technical option and a business option. A course in Analysis of Electrical Circuits for Power and Communications Engineering was developed for a semester's work in the senior year. A course in thermionics was introduced into the junior year. By 1932 graduate courses included Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Advanced Illummination, The Circle Diagram, Applied Electric and Magnetic Field Theory, Advanced Measurerments, .Automatic and Supervisory Control., Theory of Dielectrics., Operational Circuit Analysis, Powrer System Stability, Power Networks, Principes of Radio Communication, Principles of Wire Telegraphy Telepohony, Electrical Vibrating Systems., Electrical Wave Filters, .Alternating Current Bridges., High Voltage Phenomena, and Alterrnating Current Instruments.
1935
"In that year and continuing thereafter lecturers were given by special lecturers from Nela Park to supplement regular class work. Many aditions to laboratory equipment. A course was established entitled Engineering Economics. An analysis of employment records of Electrical Engineering graduates in 1935 indicated:· 26% Electrical Mannfacturing;, 25% Industrial; 14% Communications and 10% Public Utilities other than Cornmumiications. Others ·were distributed in such fields as education., governmenit, consulting, sales-, transportation., ,etc«>"
1938
ast improvement to laboratory equipment. Library increased to 2,900 volumes (rather than the previous several hundred) plus bound copies of important periodicals"
Department of Geology and Mineralogy
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