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PRINCETON ENGINEERING TIMELINE

  • 1866 - The State of New Jersey grants approval to award the degrees of BS, MS, and PhD.
  • 1873 - The John C. Green School of Science opens on September 10th
  • 1875 - The first engineering professor, Charles McMillian, is hired as a Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics. Cyrus Brackett, who was to go on to later establish the Department of Electrical Engineering, on the faculty at this time, was a Professor of Physics.
  • 1889 - The nation’s first program in electrical engineering begins for graduate students.
  • 1898 - The first Ph.D. in Engineering is granted in Electrical Engineering.
  • 1921 - The School of Engineering is established with Arthur Maurice Greene, Jr. as its first Dean. Electrical, chemical, geological, and mechanical engineering are added to civil engineering as undergraduate programs.
  • 1935 - The basic engineering program is established.
  • 1942 - The aeronautical engineering program begins.
  • 1985 - Department of Computer Science is founded.
  • 1999 - The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering is founded.

Princeton University, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746, has 7,100 students (close to 4,800 undergraduates and 2,300 graduate students) and remains one of the smallest of the major research universities.

The nation’s first program in electrical engineering began in 1889 at Princeton University for graduate students.