Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Clark School Celebrates 100 Years

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WHAT: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering just wrapped up its 100th anniversary celebrations this month. More than 200 attendees participated in centennial events over the weekend, culminating in a talk by inventor Dean Kamen at a gala event on Saturday.

WHO: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, offers one of the strongest and most highly-ranked education and research programs in electrical engineering in the nation. Led by 89 full-time and affiliate faculty members and 50 research faculty and postdocs, the department’s research programs cover a wide spectrum of activities in the information and electronic sciences.

WHEN: Official festivities wrapped up over the weekend.

WHERE: A. James Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

TIDBITS: 1908: The electrical engineering (EE) department was originally housed, along with the rest of the engineering school, in a two-story building on the opposite side of campus from where the engineering complex is today.

1914-1915: The cost per term for a laboratory class in EE was .75 cents for sophomores and $1.00 for juniors and seniors.

1926: First Master’s Degree awarded in EE – Howard Redford Aldridge, B.S. Eng. ‘25

1946: Due to World War II, the entire EE junior class in 1946 consisted of only one 17-year-old student — Walter R. Beam, who would later become the first EE Ph.D. graduate in 1953. Beam was in attendance at the centennial gala event.

About the A. James Clark School of Engineering
The Clark School of Engineering, situated on the rolling, 1,500-acre University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md., is one of the premier engineering schools in the U.S.

The Clark School's graduate programs are collectively the fastest rising in the nation. In U.S. News & World Report's annual rating of graduate programs, the school is 17th among public and private programs nationally, 11th among public programs nationally and first among public programs in the mid-Atlantic region.

The School offers 13 graduate programs and 12 undergraduate programs, including degree and certification programs tailored for working professionals.

The school is home to one of the most vibrant research programs in the country. With major emphasis in key areas such as communications and networking, nanotechnology, bioengineering, reliability engineering, project management, intelligent transportation systems and space robotics, as well as electronic packaging and smart small systems and materials, the Clark School is leading the way toward the next generations of engineering advances.

Visit the Clark School homepage at www.eng.umd.edu.

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