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Industrial Engineering At Purdue University

The Roots and First Thirty Years

• FOREWORD
  
  
• THE ROOTS OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
  Practical Machanics (1878-1938)
  
  
• THE BIRTH AND NURTURING OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING OPTION
  Mechanical Engineering (1908-1938)
  
  
• THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING OPTION ENTERS A NEW ERA
  General Engineering Department (1938-1955)
  
  
• INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING COMES INTO ITS OWN (1955-1958)
  
  
• THE FORMATIVE YEARS AND SETTLEMENT IN GRISSOM HALL (1958-1969)
  
  
• CONTINUOUS GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (1969-1981)
  
  
• A REEMPHASIS ON MANUFACTURING (1981-1985)
  
  
• EPILOG