Book ID: CBB428233837

A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 (2014)

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In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build both a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS’s engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. He compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school’s engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches to those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy league engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

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Review David Gordon Walker (2015) Review of "A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864". International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology (pp. 295-296). unapi

Review David Gordon Walker (2015) Review of "A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864". International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology (pp. 295-296). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Thursby, Marie C.
Adam Kirn
Zehev, Tadmor
Kacey Beddoes
Jacqueline Rohde
Clough, G. Wayne
Concepts
Engineering
Education, engineering
Education
Engineers
Engineering and Society
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
United States
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Italy
Canada
Texas (U.S.)
India
Institutions
Community colleges
Texas A&M University
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