A History Of The College Of Engineering Of The University Of Illinois 1868 1945

Author : Winton U. Solberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0252025792

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The University of Illinois, 1894-1904 by Winton U. Solberg Pdf

The distinguished historian Winton U. Solberg presents a detailed case study of one institution's transformation into a modern American university. The years 1894 to 1904 mark the stormy tenure of Andrew S. Draper as president of the University of Illinois. Draper, a successful superintendent of schools with no college or university experience and no credentials as a post-secondary administrator, presided over many crucial improvements in the university's physical plant, curricula, and other areas. However, he failed to infuse the university with a spirit of cohesion, and his term as president was fraught with conflict. From his inauguration on, the autocratic Draper collided with deans and faculty who opposed both the substance of his changes and the manner in which he presented and implemented them. This volume closely examines the Draper years from the perspectives of faculty, students, and administrators. Solberg outlines the administrative, faculty, staff, and physical infrastructure. He also reveals a vibrant and varied student life, including a whirl of social activities, literary societies, intercollegiate debate and athletics, hazing, religion, and increasingly prominent fraternities. A sharply delineated and detailed picture of a university in transition, The University of Illinois, 1894-1904 traces the school's shift from an institution known primarily as a training ground for engineers to a full-fledged university poised to compete on the national level.

Author : Renée Beville Flower,Brent M. Haddad
Publisher : University of California eScholarship
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780615970134

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Reawakening the Public Research University by Renée Beville Flower,Brent M. Haddad Pdf

A core institution in the human endeavor—the public research university—is in transition. As U.S. public universities adapt to a multi-decadal decline in public funding, they risk losing their essential character as a generator, evaluator, and archivist of ideas and as a wellspring of tomorrow’s intellectual, economic, and political leaders. This book explores the core interdependent and coevolving structures of the research university: its physical domain (buildings, libraries, classrooms), administration (governance and funding), and intellectual structures (curricula and degree programs). It searches the U.S. history of the public research university to identify its essential qualities, and generates recommendations that identify the crucial roles of university administration, state government and federal government.

Author : Amy E. Slaton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801872976

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Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 by Amy E. Slaton Pdf

Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings—little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry—offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production. The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills, opportunities, credit, and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited. Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings, this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas.

Author : Maynard Brichford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786453948

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Bob Zuppke by Maynard Brichford Pdf

Bob Zuppke was head football coach at the University of Illinois from 1912 to 1941, a period that saw two world wars, a major economic depression, and significant changes in higher education and the role of sports, as major intercollegiate competitions became primary public relations events for the most competitive universities. Often credited with several significant football innovations including the huddle, Zuppke won two national championships and won or tied for seven Big Ten conference titles. This biography of Zuppke is a study of his passion for football, his advocacy for its educational value and his ability to promote and market the game to the academic community and the general public. It places him in the context of multiple themes, including the development of interscholastic, intercollegiate and professional football; presidential support and public relations; sports psychology; stadium building and commercial sports; academic criticism; the fraternity system; boosters; and sports in a state-supported public university.

Author : Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252072030

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No Boundaries by Lillian Hoddeson Pdf

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world. Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.

Author : Ira O. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112067109394

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A History of the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois 1868-1945 by Ira O. Baker Pdf

Author : Francesca Hughes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262526364

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The Architecture of Error by Francesca Hughes Pdf

Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding the discipline's needs, anxieties and desires. When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has reconfigured itself. In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect's acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries—from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication—that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material testing, and the rhetorical obstacles that blighted cybernetics. Why is it, she asks, that the more we cornered physical error, the more we feared it? Hughes's analysis of redundant precision exposes an architecture of fear whose politics must be called into question. Proposing error as a new category for architectural thought, Hughes draws on other disciplines and practices that have interrogated precision and failure, citing the work of scientists Nancy Cartwright and Evelyn Fox Keller and visual artists Gordon Matta-Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Rachel Whiteread, and others. These non-architect practitioners, she argues, show that error need not be excluded and precision can be made accountable.

Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801889073

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Death Rode the Rails by Mark Aldrich Pdf

For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.

Author : Alan I Marcus
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1557533601

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Engineering in a Land-grant Context by Alan I Marcus Pdf

Annotation Engineering in a Land-Grant Context considers the US government's first foray into higher education by examining engineering education at the nation's land-grant universities over the past 140 years. The authors demonstrate how that history has framed the present and suggest how it is likely to influence the fashioning of the future.

Author : Gerald Marks Almy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112086382188

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A Century of Physics at the University of Illinois 1868-1968 by Gerald Marks Almy Pdf

Author : Laura D. Hahn,Angela S. Wolters
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780252050671

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Women and Ideas in Engineering by Laura D. Hahn,Angela S. Wolters Pdf

The increasing presence of women within engineering programs is one of today's most dramatic developments in higher education. Long before, however, a group of talented and determined women carved out new paths in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Laura D. Hahn and Angela S. Wolters bring to light the compelling hidden stories of these pioneering figures. When Mary Louisa Page became the College's first female graduate in 1879, she also was the first American woman ever awarded a degree in architecture. Bobbie Johnson's insistence on "a real engineering job" put her on a path to the Apollo and Skylab programs. Grace Wilson, one of the College's first female faculty members, taught and mentored a generation of women. Their stories and many others illuminate the forgotten history of women in engineering. At the same time, the authors offer insights into the experiences of today's women from the College -- a glimpse of a brighter future, one where more women in STEM fields apply their tireless dedication to the innovations that shape a better tomorrow.

Author : Lisa Warne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112084187779

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Vignettes from a Century of Service to the University, the State, and the Nation 1890-1990 by Lisa Warne Pdf

Author : Halbert Houston Thornberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112020038342

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The history of plant pathology in Illinois by Halbert Houston Thornberry Pdf

Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082905442

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Marguerite Jenison Pease,Illinois Historical Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Codicology
ISBN : WISC:89058308859

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Guide to Manuscript Materials of American Origin in the Illinois Historical Survey by Marguerite Jenison Pease,Illinois Historical Survey Pdf