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Barnes McCormick
Conrad Newberry, Naval Postgraduate School
Eric Jumper, University of Notre Dame
Library of Flight Series
Published by AIAA, © 2004, 890 pages, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-56347-710-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-56347-710-2
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On 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC, the Wright brothers succeeded in achieving controlled flight in a heavier-than-air machine. This feat was accomplished by them only after meticulous experiments and a study of the work of others before them like Sir George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, and Samuel Langley. The first evidence of the academic community becoming interested in human flight is found in 1883 when Professor J. J. Montgomery of Santa Clara College conducted a series of glider tests. Seven years later, in 1890, Octave Chanute presented a number of lectures to students of Sibley College, Cornell University entitled “Aerial Navigation.”
This book is a collection of papers solicited from U. S. universities or institutions with a history of programs in aerospace/aeronautical engineering. There are 69 institutions covered in the 71 chapters. This collection of papers represents an authoritative story of the development of educational programs devoted to human flight. Most of these programs are still in existence but there are a few papers covering the history of programs that are no longer in operation.
A comprehensive treatment of the early beginnings of aerospace education are documented in Part I as well as the rapid expansion of educational programs relating to aeronautical engineering that took place in the 1940s. Part II is devoted to the four schools that were pioneers in establishing formal programs. Part III describes the activities of the Guggenheim Foundation that spurred much of the development of programs in aeronautical engineering. Part IV covers the 48 colleges and universities that were formally established in the mid-1930s to the present. The military institutions are grouped together in the Part V; and Part VI presents the histories of those programs that evolved from proprietary institutions.
Here's what the reviewers are saying:
“It is essentially a collection of papers about the history of aerospace engineering education in the United States, each written by a different author or set of authors, especially focused on institutional history of 69 separate institutions created to train engineers in the mechanics of flight. . . . In the end, Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight is very much a history written by and for aerospace engineers.” - Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian Institution
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A Comprehensive Look at the History of Education in Aerospace Engineering
- The Evolution of Technology and Education in Applied Aerodynamics
- The Growth of Aerospace Education Following its Beginning
- Part II: The Pioneering Universities
- A Century of Aerospace Education at MIT
- Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan
- Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Detroit
- A Brief History of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, College of Engineering, New York University
- Part III: The Guggenheim Support
- The Two Men Behind the Seven Guggenheim Schools of Aeronautics and their Further Contributions to Aerospace Engineering in the United States
- Part IV: Schools Accredited from the mid-1930s to the Present
- Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics the University of Texas at Austin—A Brief History
- The History of the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota
- History of Department of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University
- Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at N. C. State: A History
- History and Development of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Oklahoma
- A History of the University of Washington Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1917–2003
- A Historical Review of the Aerospace Engineering Curriculum at Oklahoma State University
- Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati: Cooperative Education and Research
- A History of Education in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University
- GALCIT Contributions to Education and Developments in Aeronautics
- Aerospace Education and Research at Auburn University—From the Wright Brothers' Flight School to the Space Station
- Three Quarters of a Century of Aero at Iowa State University
- Eighty-Five Years Of Astronautical/Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech: 1917–2002
- A Brief History of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia
- Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama
- A History of Aeronautics Education at Case Western Reserve University
- Aeronautics to Aerospace at the University of Notre Dame
- Of Aeronautics, Aerophysics, and Aerospace: A History of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University
- Catholic University
- A Brief History of Aerospace Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- The History of Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia University
- Aerospace Engineering at San Jose State University
- History of Aerospace Education and Research at Purdue University: 1910–2002
- Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida
- History of the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Departmen
- Aerospace Engineering Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder
- The History of Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering at Penn State
- Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, the Ohio State University
- Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Education at the University of Illinois
- Aerospace Education and Research at Princeton University 1942–1975
- Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California
- Aerospace Engineering in Buffalo—The X-factor
- Fifty Plus Years of Engineering Excellence: Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland
- The Aerospace Program at Boston University and the Origins of the College of Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee
- A Brief History of Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University
- The Early History of Aeronautics at Stanford University and the Founding of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- The Evolution of Aerospace Engineering Education at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Aerospace Engineering at SDSU—A Brief History
- History of the Aerospace Engineering Program at Howard University
- Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla: The First Thirty-Five Years
- Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington
- Aerospace Education at the University of Central Florida
- The Unusual Evolution of Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University
- Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University
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Aerospace Engineering at UCLA
- Aerospace Engineering Program at California State University, Long Beach
- Part V: Military School Programs in Aerospace Engineering
- The Wings of West Point: Contributions of the United States Military Academy to the Development of Aeronautics
- Genesis of the United States Naval Academy Aerospace Engineering Department
- Falcons Soaring: USAFA Department of Aeronautics Contributions to Aerospace Power during a Century of Manned Flight
- The Evolution of Air Force Aerospace Education at the Air Force Institute of Technology
- Naval Officer Graduate Education in Aerospace Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School
- Part VI: Proprietary School Programs in Aerospace Engineering
- From Parks Air College to Parks College of Engineering and Aviation: Seventy-Five Years of Legacy in Aerospace Engineering
- Evolution of the Aerospace Engineering Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Boeing School of Aeronautics
- From Biplanes to Reusable Launch Vehicles: Seventy-Five Years of Aircraft Design at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo)
- Aeronautical Engineering at the Aero Industries Technical Institute, Inc.
- Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic College of Engineering
- The Evolution of Aeronautical Engineering Education at the Curtiss–Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics/Cal-Aero Technical Institute
- Aerospace Engineering at Northrop University
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