Princeton’s School of Engineering was officially formed in 1921, but classes in engineering were taught as early as 1875, when Charles McMillan became the College’s first engineering professor.  He is shown here with students in an 1892 class.  Another nineteenth century professor, physics instructor Cyrus Fogg Brackett, conducted a course in electrical engineering as early as 1889.  The School of Engineering obtained its own home in the John C. Green Engineering Building (now known as Green Hall) in 1928, after the old Green School of Science burned to the ground earlier that year.  In 1962, the school was moved to the new Engineering Quadrangle, built on the grounds of the former University Field, and renamed the School of Engineering and Applied Science.  Today, courses of study include chemical, electrical, mechanical and aerospace, civil and environmental, computer science, and operations research and financial engineering.

• To learn more about the history of science at Princeton, see icon #2, 5, 6, and 7, quotation #9, 27, 34, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #14, 15, 22, 25, 32, 35, 41, 43, 51, 64, 75, 78, 83, 90, 114, and 132.
  
  
• To learn more about campus grounds and buildings, see icon #1, 5, and 8, quotation #5, 7, 9, 28, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 33, 37, 40, 46, 48, 54, 58, 61, 62, 67, 68, 71, 78, 85, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 118, 124, 127, and 133.
  
  
•  To learn more about notable Princeton professors, see icon #7, quotation #6, 13, 15, 20, 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 39, and 40, and Café Vivian picture #10, 14, 17, 22, 25, 29, 43, 51, 57, 59, 60, 68, 75, 94, 101, and 108.
  
  
• To learn more about academics at Princeton, see quotation #9, 11, 26, and 33 and Café Vivian picture #2, 10, 31, 50, 51, 59, 93, 101, 104, 108, and 115.

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