Corporation Approves Merger of School of Engineering and GSAS

The Graduate School of Engineering no longer exists.

President Conant announced yesterday that the Corporation has approved a measure, pending for some time, to merge the school with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' three year old Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics.

The newly-created Division of Engineering Sciences will be chaired by Gordon M. Fair, now Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and also Master of Dunster House.

The reorganization does not mean these the University is abolishing its engineering curriculum. "The change was made," President Conant explained, "in recognition of the close relationship between engineering, and the sciences and mathematics from which it springs.

Need for Marger

"Engineering is one of the areas where one cannot always distinguish between the 'techniques' of the scientist interested only in new conceptual schemes and those of the experimenter interested only in an improved industrial machine or process," the President continued. "In short we recognize that yesterday's pure science is today's applied science and tomorrow's billion dollar industry."

The entire Division will offer an undergraduate concentration for students wishing to specialize in applied science and engineering. The present concentration in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics will become the honors program in the Division.

A new laboratory building is contemplated for expanded research in the Division. Such subjects as applied mathematics and physics, and civil, electrical, mechanical, and sanitary engineering will be studied.

Two departments will make up the new division at first Emory L. Chaffee, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics will chair the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, while Albert Haertlein '16, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, heads the Department of Engineering