Overview The College of Engineering is among the oldest colleges at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since its establishment in 1914, it has achieved many firsts. In 1915, it became the first school at Drexel permitted to grant a four-year degree; in 1919, it was the first to implement a cooperative education program, placing students in business, industrial and professional assignments as a component of their education; and, later, in 1925, it was the first to extend the cooperative...

Scope and content note The collection comprises two series containing a variety of materials: program brochures, correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and bylaws, personal notes, press clippings, procedures guides, bills, text of speeches, chronologies, forms, budgets, photos, and lists. The earliest document in the collection is dated 1952 and the most recent dated 1982.Most of the documents fall into the series labeled Engineers Day records by year. These documents mostly pertain to planning...