The Division of Ecological and Environmental Engineering (EEE) receives approval for a graduate program at both the MS and PhD levels.

Lilly Endowment provides Purdue with a $40 million grant, the largest cash donation in University history, to support initiatives designed to foster groundbreaking research, expand high tech job growth throughout Indiana as well as nationally and globally, and enhance opportunities for students. The grant provides money for the Innovation Design Center, the Flex Lab in Discovery Park, and an expansion of the Zucrow Laboratories.

Arvind Raman, the Raman, Robert V. Adams Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is appointed as Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs (GEP). GEP seeks to provide leadership through global impact.

The University endorsed a five-year plan for a landmark investment in the College of Engineering, prompted by significant growth in our student enrollments and in our research enterprise, and spurred by the national call for the U.S. to graduate 10,000 more engineers a year.

This becomes the first teaching lab at Purdue to link lectures, experimentation and computation systems, enabling students to take a project from idea to completion.

Dean Jamieson announced Purdue Engineering's strategic plan, Extraordinary People, Global Impact.

Is the academic gateway to Purdue Engineering where many take their first step in the pursuit to become engineers, and houses Aeronautics and Astronautics plus other college programs.

Leah H. Jamieson, interim dean for the Purdue University College of Engineering and the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was appointed the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering following a national search.

As the associate dean for undergraduate education, as the Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and as a co-founder and director of Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service, EPICS, which has become a national model for engineering service-learning being adopted at 16 universities and one high-school, she had proven herself at Purdue and as an engineering leader. She is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the recipient of several awards in research and teaching, including the 2002 Indiana Professor of the Year and a National Science Foundation Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. Provost Sally Mason appoints her to continue the momentum in the college that began under the leadership of Katehi.

This national center will expand the frontiers of nanoscale research and be one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world, with specialized labs for nanoscale chemistry, biology, and physics. The building is in the Purdue Discovery Park.

Dr. Bement became the 12th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2004. During Bement's six-year term as NSF director, he oversaw the foundation's annual budget of more than $7 billion that supports the research and education of roughly 200,000 scientists, engineers, educators and students across the United States.

The engineering program that brought the royalties of over 75 U.S. patents to Purdue during its thirty-two-year history at the university become a full-fledged school. The expansion from department to school is enabled by numerous financial contributions and construction of a $25 million biomedical engineering building.

At age 16, would become Purdue's youngest engineering graduate, finishing in three years with a GPA of 3.97 on a 4.00 scale.

From 2001-2004, Dr. Bement served as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the Department of Commerce. Prior to joining NIST he was the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue.

Research in agricultural engineering evolves from its focus on the mechanization and automation of American agriculture - recognized as one of the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering - toward the biological aspects of agriculture. The department focuses on the discovery of solutions to critical public issues including safe and sustainable food supplies, environmental protection, and energy supplies that are both reliable and renewable. A few years later it would be ranked second in the nation in undergraduate and graduate studies.

Would become a national model for service learning in engineering.

Is built to house the expanding Schools of Materials and Electrical Engineering.

Would become Chairman of Microsoft India, responsible for marketing, sales, operational and business developmental efforts.

He has directed over 60 PhD and MS theses and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education. He would serve 10 years as Dean to the Schools of Engineering before leaving to take over as Chancellor at UC Santa Barbara in 1994, making his total time at Purdue 25 years, including four years as the head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue.

Would be the co-founder of Ariba, Inc., a leader in business-to-business electronic commerce services and software. He would be named one of the top ten entrepreneurs of 1998 by Red Herring magazine.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut and fly STS-98 Atlantis mission in 2001 to help build the International Space Station by delivering the U.S. laboratory module Destiny.

Would become the first female president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2002 and also become the president and CEO of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, an international management consulting firm.

Would become the Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan. Prior to this post, would serve on Jordan's peace negotiating team, would serve as master of ceremonies for the signing of the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Accord, would be the first Jordanian ambassador to Israel, and would be Jordan's minister of foreign affairs.

The program forms as a small division within Civil Engineering and it would quickly gain a national reputation for graduating some of the best prepared students in the nation. From the late 1980s onward this program would continue to see 100 percent of its students hired at graduation.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut, logging over 49 days in space, traveling 18.8 million miles in 779 Earth orbits on five space flights. Would become the Science Director for the Kepler spacecraft at NASA Ames Research Center. Kepler should launch on a Delta II in October 2007, and will be looking for potentially habitable planets around distant stars.

Would become Chairman of Texas Instruments, where he would receive recognition for mentoring programs for women and minorities at the company; and would chair the board of Catalyst, an organization working to advance women in business.

Would become host of radio's Tech Nation, a weekly interview show on National Public Radio that explores the impact of technology on society. Before radio, would work as a scientist and engineer for NASA.

The School of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering increases the importance of research in other areas then metallurgy, thus the school renames itself yet again. Over 30 years later, the school would be ranked 12th in the nation with an extensive alumni network, including company presidents and vice-presidents, researchers, business women and men, and university professors.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut, logging over 249 hours in space; would leave NASA in 1993 for a successful career in the private sector, coming to be in 2003 the Vice President and General Manager of Computer Sciences Corporation's Aerospace Business Unit, a $100 million section of the company.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut; the Deputy for Technology at the Department of Defense; the Director of Theater Missile Defense Sensors at the Department of Defense; the Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Transportation Technology at NASA; and eventually the Vice President, Engineering and Operations, at ORBIMAGE, a leading global provider of geospatial imagery products and services.

Would become Shuttle Astronaut and eventually a strong advocate of space exploration serving as chairman of the board of directors of Spacecause, president of the National Space Society, and board director of the Association of Space Explorers.

Would become Shuttle Astronaut; program director of the joint U.S. and Russian Shuttle-Mir Program in 1992; and Director of Quality Assurance, Code QW, at NASA Headquarters in 1994.

Would become Shuttle Astronaut and eventually Director of the Kennedy Space Center.

Division retains and recruits students who have an interest in both engineering and another discipline. It serves as the home for students interested in fields that are not served by one of the Schools of Engineering until a regular program is developed. Examples would include acoustical, biomedical, and environmental engineering, and before IDE was a division, it included nuclear engineering.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut and command flight 31, which deployed the Hubble Telescope.

Becomes dean and immediately initiates changes to make Purdue University a leader in graduate-level engineering research, setting the first steps to make Purdue's graduate engineering to be ranked as one of the Top-10 programs in the nation. Not only has Grosh been an administrator and instructor at the university, he also has been a student. He received his BS, MS, and PhD all from Purdue.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut, the Director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and the Directory of NASA's Langley Research Center.

Due to the changing nature of its research and education and the significant increase of interest in materials beyond the metals, the name of the school changes to the School of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering.

Would become a Shuttle Astronaut and eventually serve as Commander on STS-34 Atlantis in 1989 that deployed the Galileo spacecraft that explored Jupiter and made the discovery of likely sub-surface water oceans on the icy moon of Jupiter, Europa, prompting plans for future spacecraft to return to Europa to search for life.

Is built on Stadium Mall, later known as the Engineering Mall. It houses lecture rooms and laboratories plus college program offices.

Would be founder, Chairman, and CEO of Tellabs Inc., an innovator in bandwidth solutions and a leading provider of cable telephony solutions in Europe. He would also be a leader in enabling nanotechnology research at Purdue.

The school separates from the metallurgical engineering. Since the name of the School of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, research in metallurgy at Purdue had expanded. In 1942, its PhD program started. In 1951, it became its own division.

Would become an astronaut, but before going to space, would die with Gus Grissom on January 27, 1967 in the Apollo 1 flash fire at Cape Kennedy. Would be awarded posthumously be President Clinton in 1997 the Congressional Space Medal, the U.S. space program's highest honor.

Would be First Man on the Moon, July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 mission.

The formation of the department comes from a long history of the discipline being taught at the university, including some courses taught by Lillian Gilbreth, the first lady of engineering, but it is under the supervision of a faculty that has no members with a PhD Some of the original faculty members would take leaves of absence, at great personal sacrifice, to secure their doctorates from other universities. Because of people like these leading the program, over 50 years later the industrial engineering program at Purdue would be ranked second in the nation.

Prior to appointment, was Purdue professor of Mechanical Engineering. Under his leadership, the curriculum of Purdue engineering would be redefined. Hawkins would head numerous studies on the subject and write many papers about his findings before making changes. In the end, scientific theory would have greater application to engineering. Freshman and industrial engineering programs would be established. Chemical would be separated from Metallurgical Engineering, and the Division of Engineering Studies would be established.

At age 28, would lead the start-up of the Dow Chemical Company in Brazil, which would become the second-largest chemical concern in the country; in 1978 would become president of Dow Chemical and lead the organization's transformation into a global enterprise.

Research engineering, and, ultimately, executive vice president for DuPont; would lead in the development and manufacture of important new fiber products including Kevlar fiber which would be used in bullet-proof clothing, brakes and transmission parts, and a host of other applications.

As Chairman emeritus of Bechtel Group - a premier U.S. engineering and construction firm - Bechtel would help build America's industrial base and improve life for people throughout the world.

Dean Potter decided by mid-1941 that aeronautical engineering should play a key role in Purdue's growing war training effort. Under his leadership, the School of Mechanical Engineering changes its name and begins the university's first, four-year BS curriculum in aeronautical engineering. During the war, aero engineering would work in conjunction with the armed forces and war industry to create specific training programs: the Air Corps Cadet Aeronautical Engineering Program, the Curtiss-Wright Cadette Programs to train young women for technical positions normally help by men at the airplane corporation, and the Navy V-12 Program.

John L. Bray, head of the school and a long-time metallurgical researcher, recognizes the importance of metallurgy within the School of Chemical Engineering by placing it in the name of the school. Later the disciplines would be split into separate schools that would continue to occupy the same building.

Would be known as the "First Lady of Engineering" and would become the first female member of the National Academy of engineering; teaches Purdue's first engineering management courses from 1935-1948.

Would win Nobel Prize in physics in 1952, with Felix Bloch, for finding a way to detect the extremely weak magnetism of the atomic nucleus.

First university-owned airport in the nation; the faculty uses the building to hold aeronautics classes.

Robert Batts, a Purdue engineering undergraduate, builds first receiver for police cars.

Takes on the task of bringing the Industrial Revolution to agriculture; among some of its first acts, would prove the effectiveness of tractors to Indiana farmers, then proving to farmers and power companies the efficiency and need of using electricity on farms, putting Indiana at the forefront among states having good electric service in rural areas. Eighty years later the program would be renamed Agricultural and Biological Engineering and be ranked second in the nation for ABE.

Would become the inventor of all-electronic television receiver with colleague Howard Heim, and later would become Director of Purdue's first high-voltage lab.

Becomes dean; would build Purdue into the largest and one of the most respected engineering colleges in the country, serving as Dean until 1953. People would often refer to him as "The Dean of Deans" because of his large role in the direction of engineering education in this country during the twentieth century. He was born in Vilna, Russia on August 5, 1882.

What would be renamed Michael Golden Engineering Laboratories and Shops, is built to house some of the electrical and mechanical engineering classes at Purdue.

What would be renamed Grissom Hall, is build to house the increasing number of students in the growing school. Years later is would house Industrial Engineering, and Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering.

Becomes first dean of the Schools of Engineering that he helped found. He had come to the school in 1879, and he created the world's first locomotive testing lab at Purdue in 1891.

Smart took immediate action to re-erect the building. After his rallying "one brick higher" speech, the university re-builds the hall nine bricks higher as the home of Purdue engineering.

Purdue's first African American engineering graduate. From 1894 to 1906 he would hold the position of mechanical drawing instructor at Armstrong & Slater Memorial Trade School at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. Later, he would start a successful career as real estate broker in Pittsburgh.

University builds world's first locomotive testing lab, a facility for railroad experiments using the Purdue's experimental steam and locomotive train engines, the Corliss and the Schenectady.

The first EE building is erected on the site where Wetherill Chemistry Laboratories would later stand. The building has 330,899 square feet and costs $27,316.37 to create.

Graduates as Purdue's first agricultural engineering and would be the recipient of Purdue's first honorary doctorate. In the 1930s, he would direct the development of the Hoover Dam.

The university establishes the first engineering building on campus, later called Mechanical Laboratory and also Science Hall. It would house the first electrical and mechanical engineering classes at Purdue. It stands where Stanley Coulter would later be built.

Purdue's first engineering school forms with not even one of Purdue's 90 total students qualified to take an engineering course from the University's one engineering instructor. Over a century later, the school would have 49 faculty members teaching over 1100 undergraduate and graduate students. The undergraduate program would be ranked seventh in the nation, and the graduate program, ninth.

The schools are Civil Engineering, Chemistry and Metallurgy, Physics and Mechanics, Agriculture, Horticulture and Natural History.

University President Shortridge announces in a November 1 report the beginning of four-year courses for civil and mechanical engineering to start in the spring semester of 1875.

Sets the first funding provisions for Purdue, and for a more democratic form of university education. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2; the federal government would turn over public lands to states that would use the proceeds from their sale to maintain a college to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts.