NCSU Timelines

1890s

1910 Winston Hall opens
Winston Hall opens, housing civil, chemical, and electrical engineering courses. It was named for second college president George Tayloe Winston.
Winston Hall
1917 Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics established
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics were established when the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering separated into two programs

1937 Electrical Engineeering Department receives accreditation
The Electrical Engineering Department is receives accreditation the Engineer's Council for Professional Development.

1953 First Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering conferred
1957 First African-American graduate
Robert Clemons received a professional degree in Electrical Engineering (PREE), becoming the first African-American to graduate from NC State.

5/1960 First African-American undergraduate degree conferred
Irwin Holmes earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, making him the first African-American undergraduate to receive a degree at NC State. Further documentation of Irwin Holmes's life exists at DigitalNC.

1975 First woman to receive Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Alice Cline becomes the first woman at NC State to receive a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

1981 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Department of Electrical Engineering is renamed the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
1983 Calvin H. Carter, Jr., awarded doctorate
Calvin H. Carter, Jr., was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He had previously earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1977 and a Master of Science degree in 1980. He later became co-founder of Cree, Inc., and was a 2002 recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
1989 Electrical and Computer Engineering History
George B. Hoadley, Edward G. Manning, and William J. Barclay write A Brief History of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: College of Engineering, North Carolina State University. An updated version of it exists on the departmental website.

2005 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering moves
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering moves from Daniels Hall to Engineering Building II on Centennial Campus.
2008 FREEDM Systems Center created
NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems is established to will develop technology that revolutionizes the power grid and speeds energy produced from solar panels, wind farms, fuel cells and other renewable sources into homes and businesses.

9/5/2012 ASSIST Center established
The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) was established to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it. With both the ASSIST and FREEDM centers, NC State become the only university with two NSF engineering research centers.