Jac F. Mullen ‘10 and Danielle L. Connelly ‘11 test the water in Lake Carnegie as part of the class ENV 201 Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Population, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Energy. Developing sustainable energy sources and creating a cleaner environment is one of the most pressing issues we face as a society today, and one of the top priorities of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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“Two way mirror and sound equipment permit observer to study human subject.” Department of Psychology, circa 1950s.
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Psychology graduate student Sara M. Szczepanski (in green) and Associate Professor of Psychology Sabine Kastner, scientific director of the neuroimaging facility at the Center for the Study of the Brain, Mind and Behavior, prepare Michael J. Arcaro, a research specialist at the center, for a visual-spatial attention experiment.
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Brain research in 1939 was conducted on “Dr. Harvey’s Brain Machine”—but how? And by whom? Was this machine named for Edmund Newton Harvey? Harvey came to Princeton as an instructor in biology in 1919 at the age of 23 and was on the faculty for 45 years, becoming Henry Fairfield Osborn Professor in 1933. In the 1920s he offered the first biochemistry courses at Princeton, which were among the first offered at any university. He and his wife Ethel, also a biologist with a PhD from Columbia, had two sons, E. Newton Harvey Jr. ‘38 and Richard B. Harvey 43, who earned doctorates in physical chemistry and medicine.
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Students learning to fly at the Princeton Airport through the Civil Aeronautics Association flight training program, 1940.
World War II changed the School of Engineering. Princeton’s Department of Aeronautical Engineering was formed in 1941 to meet critical wartime needs, and became a leader in the field. Later the department merged with the department of Mechanical Engineering to form the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences (now the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering).
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View in the north wing of the Engineering Building as seniors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering test ice machines and internal combustion engines under the direction of Alfred E. Sorenson, a member of the faculty from 1926 to 1971.
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Students at work in the Brackett Machine Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering
The labs are named for Professor Cyrus Fogg Brackett, who founded the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1889, the nation’s first program. A close associate of both Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, Brackett came to Princeton in 1873. He personally designed much of Princeton’s electrical system at the time, and it is rumored that his lecture room was the first electrically lighted classroom in America.
In 1921, the School of Engineering was formally established, growing from the School of Science. In addition to electrical engineering, there were undergraduate and graduate programs in mechanical, civil, chemical, and geological engineering.
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Professor Sidney Shore at the controls of the scale model of the bridge span of the Delaware Memorial Suspension Bridge, part of the Delaware River Bridge Project, Department of Civil Engineering.
Engineering first came to Princeton in 1875 with the appointment of Charles McMillian to the faculty of the School of Science. McMillian was hired as a Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering.
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