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Engineering -- Study and teaching.

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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Engineers for a Sustainable World miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 71 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924088363274]
Identifier: 6621
Scope and content

Program for the Engineers Without Frontiers conference, "Bridging the Divide: Building a Better World through Interdisciplinary and Participatory Action," the first national conference held at Cornell University in September 2003. Also, 2005 publicity materials.

Dates: 2003, 2005.

Gertrude Goodwin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2983
Scope and content

Lecture notes for numerous engineering courses taken by Goodwin; also, Cornell ephemera. Also, plaque presented in memory of Gertrude Murdoch Goodwin at her death in 1997.

Dates: 1927-1931.

Harry Wheeler Powell student notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065223764]
Identifier: 37-5-191
Scope and content Notes of Harry Wheeler Powell, graduate student in mathematics, Physics, and Engineering, 1886-1888. Included are Powell's notes in Physics and Integral Calculus, reports on experiments in Physics, first and second examinations in Mechanics of Engineering, Fall. Also included in collection are Notes on the Graphical Statics of Mechanism by Irving Porter Church, 1888 and Instructions to Students Pursuing the Elementary Physical Laboratory Course at Cornell University by William Anthony,...
Dates: 1886-1888.

Henry Gordon Macdonald notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065488268]
Identifier: 37-5-2901
Scope and content

Meticulously kept notebooks of courses taken in Cornell's Sibley College Department of Experimental Engineering, including textual notes, photographs, charts, and test results.

Dates: 1899-1901

Herbert J. Carlin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-6-2659
Scope and content

Files from meetings of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, correspondence, contracts and grants files, reviews of engineering projects, course listings and materials, lecture notes from foreign lectures and seminars, information on graduate students, and papers and information on other lectures and seminars.

Dates: 1955-[ca.1990]

Herman Diederichs papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-2-440
Scope and content Correspondence, administrative files and other printed material concerning a wide range of Dean Diederichs' activities; includes correspondence concerning the reorganization of the university athletic program, Coach Gilmour Dobie and the football team, the university scholarship policy, the College of Engineering (1930-37), the buildings for the College (1930-33), Cornell patents, fraternities and dormitories (1919, 1929, 1930-32, 1934), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...
Dates: 1928-1937.

Irving Porter Church papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187613]
Identifier: 37-5-837
Scope and content

Student notes from courses in mechanics, physics, geometry, botany, and Spanish at Cornell University. Also, "Advance Pages from the Revised Edition of Mechanics of Engineering," by Church,1908. A volume of manuscript notes on mechanics is cataloged separately (37-5-837 Bd. Ms. 1).

Dates: 1870-1913.

Kenneth Lewis Roberts Footsteps in the Forest

 Collection — Manuscript box 32 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065300364]
Identifier: 16-1-2856
Scope and content

Account of the life and professional career of a civil engineer, consisting chiefly of reflective intellectual observations.

Dates: 1991.

Robert Henry Thurston letter

 Collection — Manuscript box 9 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303012]
Identifier: 16-5-m.124
Scope and content

Letter, June 19, 1894, of recommendation by Thurston for Eugene Bradley Clark (Class of 1894).

Dates: 1894.

Robert Henry Thurston papers

 Collection
Identifier: 16-2-40
Abstract

Correspondence, reprints, photograph album from Brown University, Class of 1859 and diplomas. The correspondence concerns experiments, inventions, engineering and scientific problems, scientific machinery and instruments.

Dates: 1859-1902.