Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[194] [195] Among other centennial observances, a time capsule was placed in the Student Center, and a team of historians wrote a comprehensive guide to Georgia Tech's history, Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885–1985. [196] [b] In 1986, Pettit died of cancer, and Henry C. Bourne Jr. served as interim president. [197]
The Georgia Tech Glee Club, founded in 1906, is one of the oldest student organizations on campus, and still operates today as part of the School of Music. [197] [198] The Glee Club was among the first collegiate choral groups to release a recording of their songs.
In February 1899, Georgia Tech opened the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States, [5] with $10,000 from the Georgia General Assembly, $20,000 of donated machinery, and $13,500 from supporters. [6] The school was named the A. French Textile School, after its chief donor and supporter, Aaron S. French. [7]
Outside of Georgia Tech, Brittain taught Sunday school classes and maintained active membership in a number of service organizations. [11] Brittain retired from his position as president of Georgia Tech in 1944, after which he penned a history of the Institute entitled The Story of Georgia Tech, completed in 1948. [16]
Ronald Yancey was rejected twice from Georgia Tech in the 1960s, and he and his family were told he “did not fit the Tech model for success,” according to a 2015 news release from the university.
The history of the College of Engineering spans more than 125 years, since the founding of Georgia Tech. [1] Beginning with classes for mechanical engineering in 1888, the College of Engineering has evolved into separate Schools for more than 10 fields of engineering.
Around 2007 Klaus became one of Georgia Tech's most visible contributors, giving a $15M naming gift to build the College of Computing's new home, the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. [2] [3] [4] In July 2014, Klaus co-founded NeuroLaunch, a business accelerator focused towards neurotech companies in Atlanta.
Control theorist, professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering [186] W. Harry Vaughan: 1923 Professor of ceramic engineering at Georgia Tech and the founder and first director of what is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute [187] Harrison Wadsworth Jr. 1949