| 1862 |
Morrill Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln |
| 1863 |
Provisions of the Act accepted by state of Kansas |
| 1863 |
Kansas State Agricultural College opened |
| 1884 |
Drawing and applied mechanics offered for the first time |
| 1886 |
Ozni P. Hood comes to K-State as superintendent of shops |
| 1890 |
Second Morrill Act approved |
| 1891 |
Machine shop added to shop building at southwest corner |
| 1893 |
Descriptive geometry offered for the first time |
| 1894 |
Provision made for heating campus buildings by steam |
| 1894 |
Electric lighting installations begins |
| 1897 |
Administrative upheaval; Thomas E. Will elected president of the college |
| 1897 |
Apprentice courses organized in the shops |
| 1897 |
Four year professional course organized in the shops |
| 1897 |
Elementary mechanics, hydraulics, machine design, and advanced machine design, mechanics of materials, measurement of power and engineering laboratory, and engineering of power plants introduced. |
| 1897 |
O.P. Hood resigns |
| 1897 |
Joseph D. Harper joins engineering faculty |
| 1899 |
Ernest R. Nichols becomes president, Kansas State Agricultural College |
| 1899 |
Electrical Engineering curriculum added |
| 1900 |
Extensive additions made to shops |
| 1902 |
Denison Hall built for chemistry, physics and electrical engineering |
| 1904 |
Architecture added to curriculum |
| 1905 |
Addition to wood shop |
| 1907 |
Civil engineering curriculum established |
| 1908 |
South wing of mechanics hall added |
| 1908 |
Position of Dean of Mechanics Arts created; E.B. McCormick named first dean |
| 1909 |
H.J. Waters elected president, Kansas State Agricultural College |
| 1909 |
Bill Introduced in Kansas legislature with provisions for transferring all engineering work to KU |
| 1910 |
Engineering Experiment Station established |
| 1910 |
Mechanical engineering divided into applied mechanics and hydraulics; mechanical drawing and machine design; power and experimental engineering; shop methods and practices; and steam and gas engineering. |
| 1911 |
East wing of mechanical engineering hall (Seaton) completed |
| 1912 |
College organized into divisions including Division of Engineering |
| 1913 |
A.A. Potter named acting dean of engineering |
| 1913 |
Department of steam and gas engineering dissolved |
| 1913 |
Agricultural engineering (farm machinery) curriculum mentioned in catalog |
| 1915 |
Farm machinery courses transferred from Agronomy to Engineering to form beginnings of an agricultural engineering department. |
| 1915 |
First issue, KSAC Engineer |
| 1916 |
Flour mill engineering course offered |
| 1917 |
Waters resigns; J.T. Willard named acting president for a two-month period |
| 1918 |
William M. Jardine named president, Kansas State Agricultural College |
| 1918 |
College shops expanded to provide technical mechanical training to the military |
| 1918 |
Dean A.A. Potter works half-time for KSAC, half-time for thar Department |
| 1918 |
Six wooden buildings erected for students' army training corps |
| 1920 |
Potter resigns to become dean of engineering at Purdue University |
| 1920 |
Roy A. Seaton named dean |
| 1920 |
Engineer's Day held - forerunner of Open House |
| 1921 |
Central and west wing of mechanics arts building (Seaton Hall) completed |
| 1921 |
"K" constructed on Prospect Hill |
| 1923 |
Dairy department building reassigned and renamed "Chemical Engineering Hall" |
| 1924 |
Landscape architecture, chemical engineering curricula added |
| 1925 |
Architectural engineering curriculum added |
| 1925 |
Jardine resigns; F.D. Farrell named president |
| 1930 |
"S" added to Prospect Hill |
| 1931 |
Name changed to Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science |
| 1933 |
Flour mill engineering dissolved; replaced by milling industry curriculum |
| 1937 |
Landscape architecture curriculum dissolved |
| 1937 |
Industrial arts program established |
| 1941 |
Seaton to Washington to organize war training effort nation-wide |
| 1941 |
Defense training courses initiated |
| 1943 |
Milton Eisenhower named president |
| 1949 |
Seaton becomes building expediter |
| 1949 |
M.A. Durland named dean of engineering |
| 1950 |
James A. McCain named president, Kansas State College |
| 1953 |
Extension of west wing of engineering building |
| 1954 |
Seaton retires; moves to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Institute of Technology |
| 1954 |
Shop practice converted to industrial engineering and industrial arts |
| 1955 |
Engineering building named "Seaton Hall' by President McCain |
| 1956 |
Machine design discontinued |
| 1957 |
Agricultural engineering wing completed |
| 1958 |
Nuclear engineering established; William R. Kimel named first department head |
| 1958 |
Industrial arts program dissolved |
| 1960 |
Industrial engineering and industrial arts shortened to "industrial engineering" |
| 1961 |
Durland retires as dean; returns to teaching |
| 1961 |
John Shupe named acting dean |
| 1963 |
Institute for Environmental Research completed; Ralph Nevins named first director |
| 1963 |
Paul Russell named dean |
| 1963 |
College of Architecture and Design is formed; Architectural engineering and construction join the new college |
| 1966 |
Engineering lecture hall remodeled |
| 1967 |
Ralph G. Nevins named dean |
| 1972 |
Ward Hall (nuclear engineering) dedicated |
| 1973 |
Donald E. Rathbone named dean |
| 1974 |
Architectural engineering and construction science rejoin the college of engineering |
| 1975 |
Applied mechanics disbanded |
| 1975 |
Duane C. Acker named president, Kansas State University |
| 1975 |
Engineering technology and architectural engineering and construction science added |
| 1975 |
Seaton Hall remodeling projects completed |
| 1976 |
Durland Hall, Phase I completed |
| 1976 |
Undesignated Ph.D. program initiated |
| 1977 |
Shop areas remodeled; renamed Seaton Court |
| 1980 |
Kansas Engineering Extension Service formed |
| 1983 |
Durland Hall, Phase II completed |
| 1985 |
Electrical engineering name changed to electrical and computer engineering |
| 1986 |
Jon Wefald named president |
| 1991 |
Engineering technology programs merged with the Kansas College of Technoloy in Salina, creating the K-State at Salina College of Technology and Aviation |
| 1993 |
Computing and Information Sciences join the college |
| 1994 |
Manufacturing engineering started and named changed to industrial and manufacturing systems engineering |
| 1994 |
Agricultural engineering named changed to biological and agricultural engineering |
| 1994 |
Civil engineering and biological and agricultural engineering offer an option in environmental engineering |
| 1997 |
Durland Hall, Phase II renamed Rathbone Hall |
| 1997 |
Terry S. King named dean |
| 1997 |
Undergradute programs of mechanical engineering and nuclear engineering merged to become the department of mechanical engineering with a nuclear engineering option |
| 2000 |
Fiedler Hall and Library completed, a 75,000-square-foot addition to the Engineering Complex |
| 2006 |
Richard R. Gallagher named interim dean |
| 2007 |
John R. English named dean |
