CHE Department History
Early Curriculum
Just like the discipline of chemical engineering itself, the curriculum in
chemical engineering at UF was developed over a period of years. In the
1916-1917 University Catalog, the chemical engineering curriculum appears for
the first time (click
here). The first year all students in engineering took the same
general courses, and specialization came only in the sophomore year. It can be
noted that in addition to Industrial Chemistry (now Chemistry VI instead of
VII), there was a new course in the senior year, Chemistry X, Engineering
Chemistry.
It should be recognized that CHE was at that time a
part of the Chemistry Department and all the chemistry courses taken by CHE
students were taught by chemistry professors.
The 1924 catalog explains what chemical engineering entails and where the
student might expect to be employed upon graduation, as well as giving a
description of the courses. While chemical engineering was now listed as a
separate department, it was still housed in the Chemistry Department, where it
remained until 1939 when it moved to its own quarters in Benton Hall in the
College of Engineering.
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The Chemistry Department's
Leigh Hall—
first home of UF's chemical engineering department. |
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