GENERAL INFORMATION
HIGHLIGHTS OF TECH HISTORY
Table 2.3 Selected Events from Georgia Tech's History - Continued |
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Year |
Event |
1942 |
The Department of Physical Education and Recreation was established. |
1945 |
Tech became the first institution to provide low-cost married housing to GI Bill students. The School of Industrial and Systems Engineering was established. |
1946 |
Tech adopted the quarter system. |
1948 |
The Board of Regents
authorized Tech to change its name to the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Southern Technical Institute opened as a branch of Tech. The Department of Architecture became the School of Architecture; the Department of Management became the School of Industrial Management; the School of Social Sciences was established. |
1949 |
The YMCA-sponsored, student-maintained World Student Fund was created to support a foreign student program. |
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1950 |
The Department of Air Science (now Air Force Aerospace Studies) was established. Tech awarded its first Doctor of Philosophy degree. |
1952 |
The School of Mathematics
was established. The Board of Regents voted to make Tech coeducational.
The first two women students enrolled in the fall quarter. |
1954 |
The Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation became the Georgia Tech Foundation. |
1955 |
The Rich Electronic Computer Center began operation. |
1956 |
Tech's first two women graduates received their degrees. |
1957 |
The Georgia Legislature granted Tech $2.5 million for a nuclear reactor. |
1959 |
The School of Engineering Science and Mechanics and the School of Psychology were established. |
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1960 |
The School of Applied Biology was established. |
1961 |
Tech is the first major
state university in the deep South to desegregate without a court order. The new Southern Tech campus in Marietta was opened. |
1962 |
The School of Nuclear Engineering was established. |
1963 |
The School of Information
and Computer Science was established. Tech was the first institution
in the United States to offer the master's degree in Information Science. The Water Resources Center was created. Renamed the Environmental Resources Center in 1970, it now functions as the Water Resources Research Institute of Georgia. |
1964 |
Tech left the Southeastern Conference (SEC). |
1965 |
Compulsory ROTC ended. |
1969 |
The School of Industrial
Management became the College of Management. The Bioengineering Center
was established in conjunction with Emory University. |
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1970 |
Southern Tech was authorized to grant four-year degrees. The School of Geophysical Sciences was established. |
1975 |
The name of the General
College was changed to the College of Sciences and Liberal Studies (COSALS),
and the School of Architecture became the College of Architecture. The Georgia Legislature designated the Engineering Experiment Station as the Georgia Productivity Center. Tech joined the Metro-6 athletic conference. |
1977 |
The Center of Radiological Research was formed to coordinate research in health physics. |
1978 |
Georgia Tech joined
the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Georgia Mining Resources Institute,
linked to the U.S. Bureau of Mines, was formed. The Fracture and Fatigue Research Laboratory was established. |
1979 |
The Computational Mechanics Center was established. |
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1980 |
Southern Tech became
an independent four-year college of engineering technology. The Center
for Rehabilitation Technology was formed. The Higher Education Management Institute study was established. |
1981 |
The Advanced Technology
Development Center, the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, and
the Microelectronics Research Center were established. |
1982 |
The Materials Handling
Research Center, Center for Architecture Conservation, Center for Excellence
in Rotary Wing Aircraft, and Communication Research Center were established. |
1983 |
The Research Center for Biotechnology was established. The Long Range Plan was begun. |
1984 |
The Engineering Experiment
Station changed its name to the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Georgia
Tech's contract corporation changed its name from the Georgia Tech Research Institute to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The Graduate Cooperative Program was formed to include graduate students in Tech's work-study program. |
1985 |
The School of Ceramic
Engineering incorporated the metallurgy program to form the School of
Materials Engineering. The Georgia Legislature authorized $15 million to fund the Center for Excellence in Microelectronics. The Centennial Campaign began. |
1986 |
The Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and the College of Architecture Construction Research Center were established. |
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