Engineering Majors Eliminated

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<p>I was browsing some of the old catalogs here at Iowa State and what really surprised me is the amount of Engineering majors that were eliminated or consolidated in the last 25 years- these were some of the majors that were offered in 1987 and later eliminated: </p>

<p>Ceramic Engineering
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Operations
Engineering Science
Metallurgical Engineering
Metallurgy
Nuclear Engineering
Surveying Engineering</p>

<p>Can you think of other Engineering majors that became obsolete with time and changes in technology/industries?</p>

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<p>On [Accredited</a> Program Search](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramSearch.aspx/AccreditationSearch.aspx]Accredited”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramSearch.aspx/AccreditationSearch.aspx) , you can look up a school’s list of ABET accredited degree programs. There may be a small link to “historically accredited programs”. Click it to see what the school used to offer.</p>

<p>Examples:</p>

<p>[Historically</a> Accredited Programs details](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=391]Historically”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=391)
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[Historically</a> Accredited Programs details](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=420]Historically”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=420)
[Historically</a> Accredited Programs details](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=41]Historically”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=41)
[Historically</a> Accredited Programs details](<a href=“http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=125]Historically”>http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsHistoricallyDetails.aspx?OrganizationID=125)</p>

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<p>Pity, Surveying Engineering had some fairly entertaining homeworks and projects… But advances in GPS and the like really did them in.</p>

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<p>It is amazing how much world has changed in 30 years. In the early 80’s, the required programming class for engineers was FORTRAN.</p>

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<p>Ceramic engineering has been absorbed into materials engineering.
Engineering Mechanics has been absorbed into either the mechanical engineering or structural engineering programs, typically at the graduate level.
Engineering Operations has generally been absorbed into industrial engineering, though there are some specialized graduate programs around.
Engineering Science is pretty vague.
Metallurgical Engineering has been absorbed into structural and materials engineering.
Metallurgy has been absorbed into structural and materials engineering.
Nuclear Engineering is still around. Sometimes it’s under physics departments, though.
Surveying Engineering is now more of a technician position, but the principles of it are typically taught in civil engineering. </p>

<p>In general, none of these things have been done away with; they’ve just been absorbed into other curricula.</p>

<p>PS- FORTRAN is alive and well, folks. I still run programs (I’m thirty-one) with “card” terminology embedded into them… Card, of course, being short for punch card…</p>

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<p>Computational Engineering and Computational Science has also absorbed Engineering Mechanics.</p>

<p>Engineering Science is really an interdisciplinary degree with a hodge-podge/mish-mash of technical courses. Very few students would enroll in that program…unless it was folks like myself (non-engineering STEM majors) who wanted an “engineering graduate degree” for resume purposes.</p>

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<p>I did theoretical chemistry research at my school last year and some of the programs were written in FORTRAN. (77? 90? Can’t remember.)</p>