Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science campuses and Lilac Drive
1 2021-09-24T16:55:18+00:00 Julia Teran 9aca9c408841ff28b321d7128a1e5c918a151e1d 101 1 Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science campuses and Lilac Drive, 1928?-1938? 2021-09-24T16:55:18+00:00 06095 1928?-1938? Case ; Western Reserve University ; University Circle ; F37000 Grounds unknown CWRU Photography CWRU Archives [Places] Julia Teran 9aca9c408841ff28b321d7128a1e5c918a151e1dThis page is referenced by:
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Academics, 1929-1947
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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 Mechanics and Materials
- Applied Mechanics, 1898-1934
- Department of Engineering Administration
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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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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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.
The curriculum was expanded with the addition of the 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 courses.
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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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 Dr. Jason J. Nassau and Dr. Brown, with Dr. Nassau as the head of the department. By 1946, the two faculty completed the stars chart, known as the Brown-Nassau star finder. The chart was used for navigation 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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Civil Engineering department occupied the first two floors of the new Warner Building that opened in 1928. The Department increased the course offerings and expanded the facilities and equipment. saw an increase in student numbers,
Prof. George Barnes becomes the head of the department in 1933. 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. Professionally, he was engaged with the United States Corps of Engineers in designing fifteen dams for flood control in the Muskingum Valley.
The Department continued to organize Case Camp, but in 1938, the camp was relocated to Mohican State Forest near Loudonville, OH. 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.
TopDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
The Department added two new specializations in 1935, Technical and Business, and a new air conditioning laboratory in 1938. The first Master of Science was granted in 1932 and the first Doctor of Philosophy was awarded in 1945. The first master in Science in Industrial Engineering was granted in 1946. In 1939, the chair Dr. F. H. Vose facilitated the opening of a Civilian Pilot Training Program under the Civil Aeronautics Authorities. In 1945, Dr. Vose retired and Dr. George Tuve became the new chair.
The department had a close relationship with the alumni, establishing in 1936 an Advisory Committee chaired by Elmer Lindseth. The faculty had strong connections with the local professional organizations and city leadership. In 1935, Dr. F. H. Vose was elected to the Executive Board of Citizens League of Cleveland and Dr. George Tuve was elected president of Cleveland Chapter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Students followed the professional engaged model of their faculty and hosted a regional meeting of student branches of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1939, as well as established a branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1943.
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After the mining engineering was discontinued in 1931, the Mining and Metallurgy Department was renamed to Department of Metallurgy. The Rockefeller Metallurgy building was improved in 1941 and new lab equipment was purchased. In 1942, the department awards the first Ph.D. in Metallurgy to Harry P. Croft.
Department of Metallurgy
The catalog for metallurgy included courses such as Blast Furnace Cost and Operation, Open Hearth Operation and Design, Industrial Furnaces, Advanced Metallography, Hydro Metallurgy of Copper, Ingots and Ingot Molds, and Applied X-Ray Spectrometry.
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1932
Graduate 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«>"
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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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