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Entries Tagged as 'Engineering Management'

First African American to recieve a U.S. patent

March 3rd, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History-March 3, 1831–Thomas Jennings became the first African-American to receive a patent for his invention of ‘dry-scouring’, a process better known today as dry-cleaning.
As a free man, he established a local business in New York in which he sold clothing. However, customers became disgruntled that there was no means to effectively clean the [...]

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Tags: African American · Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering · Engineering Design · Engineering Management · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Engineering · Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Johns Hopkins Engineering – Past, Present and Future

February 22nd, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – February 22, 1876 – Johns Hopkins opens as first research university in America.
At his inauguration, Johns Hopkins first president, Daniel Coit Gilman asked: What are we aiming at? The encouragement of research … and the advancement of individual scholars, who by [...]

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Tags: BioEngineering and Biomedical Engineering · Engineering Management · General Engineering, Engineering Science

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Vacuum cleaners, engineering design and prototype testing

February 18th, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – February 18, 1901 – First vacuum cleaner patented by Hubert Cecil Booth, an English structural engineer. This design had the disadvantage that it had no way to collect the dust and never became a commercial success. In 1907, James Spangler, a janitor working in Canton, Ohio, was not aware of [...]

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Tags: Engineering Design · Engineering Management · Engineering Mechanics · Industrial Design · Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Engineering · Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Funeral for Analog TV

February 17th, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – February 17, 2009 – Television originally scheduled to go digital in the U.S. Congress mandated this as the date when all full-power TV stations would cease to broadcast analog programming. This transition to digital television was promoted as enabling more efficient use of the nation’s airwaves, including allowing new [...]

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Tags: Electrical Engineering · Engineering Design · Engineering Management · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Industrial Engineering · Materials Engineering

Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: First hand-held calculator

February 1st, 2010 · Add a Comment

Today in History – February 1, 1972 – First scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395. I was an undergraduate in engineering when the HP-35 was released. I couldn’t afford to buy one and stuck with my slide rule. But the next year, I gave in and bought the next model, the HP-45 [...]

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Tags: Computer Science · Computing · Electrical Engineering · Engineering Design · Engineering Management · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Industrial Engineering · Information Systems · Information Technology · Manufacturing Engineering · Mechanical Engineering

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