Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea

by Alan I. Marcus

Engineering in a Land-Grant Context, a volume of well-crafted essays, considers the federal government's first foray into higher education by examining engineering education at the nation's land-grant universities over the past 140 years. The authors demonstrate how that history has framed the present and suggest how it is likely to influence the foreseeable future. The expert contributors, all of whom have studied and written prominently on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557533601
• ISBN13: 9781557533609
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"