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A Lever Long Enough : A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 / Robert McCaughey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ColumbianaPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : ‹B›B&W Photos: ‹/B›35Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231166881
  • 9780231537520
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 620.0071/17471
LOC classification:
  • T171.F854 M33 2014
  • T171.F854
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Engineering in America-Before Engineers -- 2. Fast Start 1864-1889 -- 3. A Corner in the University 1889-1929 -- 4. The Great Depression and the Good War 1930-1945 -- 5. Missing the Boat 1945-1964 -- 6. Bottoming Out 1965-1975 -- 7. Catching a Lift 1976-1980 -- 8. Uneven Ascent 1980-1994 -- 9. A School in Full 1995-2007 -- 10. A Lever Long Enough: Seas at One Hundred Fifty -- Notes -- A Bibliographic Note -- Index
Summary: In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school's engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches with those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy League engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Engineering in America-Before Engineers -- 2. Fast Start 1864-1889 -- 3. A Corner in the University 1889-1929 -- 4. The Great Depression and the Good War 1930-1945 -- 5. Missing the Boat 1945-1964 -- 6. Bottoming Out 1965-1975 -- 7. Catching a Lift 1976-1980 -- 8. Uneven Ascent 1980-1994 -- 9. A School in Full 1995-2007 -- 10. A Lever Long Enough: Seas at One Hundred Fifty -- Notes -- A Bibliographic Note -- Index

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In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school's engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches with those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy League engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)