Found 23 events matching "agricultural engineering"
The Department of Agricultural Engineering was renamed the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
The agricultural engineering instructional program commenced in the 1920-1921 academic year. R. E. Bosque and H. D. Lewis were the earliest instructors, and they were part of the agronomy faculty.
A tobacco bulk curing unit was developed by the Department of Agricultural Engineering.
G. W. Giles wrote A Department Grows to Maturity: The History of Agricultural Engineering at N.C. State University (1914 to 1977). An updated version of this history was hosted on the department's website.
Weaver Laboratories was built for Agricultural Engineering and named for David Stathem Weaver, a former director of the Agricultural Extension Service.
Service courses in farm equipment were taught in the Department of Agronomy and not by engineering. Agricultural engineering courses were first taught in the 1920-1921 academic year.
Twenty-two women were listed on the faculty, most at the instructor or laboratory technician level. Departments with more than one woman employee included English (six), statistics (three), textiles (three), and modern languages (two). Women were also on the faculty in architecture, agricultural economics, mathematics, physics, social studies, chemistry, engineering, research, and agronomy.