Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 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
The only previous permanent assignment to GE came through the division of Associate Professor Samuel H. Beer's appointment between the Government and the General Education Departments.