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An undergraduate biomedical engineering concentration was established within the College of Engineering.
Hubert Winston became the first African American faculty member in the College of Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Winston was also the first African American to earn a PhD from the College of Engineering while studying chemical engineering.
The Department of Computer Science was transferred from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to the College of Engineering.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established and co-located at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Medicine and NC State's College of Engineering.
Christine Grant, a professor in chemical engineering, became the first African American woman appointed as faculty member in the College of Engineering.
Sarah A. Rajala joined the Electrical Engineering faculty as the first woman faculty member with a PhD to join the College of Engineering.
After receiving a loan of $2,000,000 worth of diesel engines from the U.S. Navy, the College of Engineering launched a graduate program in diesel engineering.
Fitts-Woolard Hall opened as a 225,000 square-foot engineering innovation building. Fitts-Woolard Hall brought the College of Engineering together on Centennial Campus by serving as the home for the Dean’s Administration; the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering; and the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and System Engineering.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was renamed the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering.
George B. Hoadley, Edward G. Manning, and William J. Barclay wrote A Brief History of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: College of Engineering, North Carolina State University. An updated version was hosted on the departmental website.
An original land scrip endowment to the University of North Carolina as part of the Morrill Act, lost during the Reconstruction period, was restored. This document created a College of Agriculture and a College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts at the University of North Carolina.
The Geological Engineering program separated from the Department of Mineral Industries and the College of Engineering. It was renamed the Department of Geosciences in the newly-formed School of Physical Science and Applied Mathematics, and later became part of the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences in 1980.
The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program was established. Fifty-six freshman women with majors in PAMS and the College of Engineering joined the program in its first year. As of 2009, the "living and learning village" included 256 women majoring in five colleges across campus, and a high school chapter was established at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
Anna Clyde Fraker was the first woman to receive a doctorate in ceramic engineering and in the College of Engineering at NC State. Dr. Fraker began her career at NC State's Department of Engineering Research where she contributed to biomaterials engineering research. Her research focused on surgical implant materials and finding a material that was compatible with the chemistry of the human body but would not corrode. In her later work at the National Bureau of Standards and Technology (NIST), Dr. Fraker's research led to the development of standards for implant materials.
NC State received a $28 million gift from alumnus Fred Wilson Jr. and his family to fund an endowment to support and name NC State’s College of Textiles.
The UNC Board of Governors authorized the establishment of the College of Management at NC State. The college was formed out of the Division of Economics and Business in CHASS. Robert L. Clark served as interim dean.
Faculty and administration of the College of Textiles voted unanimously against moving to Centennial Campus.