Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Dean
More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world’s largest engineering institution. Awarded the honorary title of “Dean of the Deans of Engineering Universities” in 1949 by his alma mater, MIT, Potter has been a teacher for 48 years and a dean for 40. Among his thousands of colleagues at Kansas State, Purdue, and the professional societies he has headed, he is known with respect and affection simply as “the Dean.” This book, illustrated with photographs, traces his life from his boyhood in Russia and his ...
Divided Paths, Common Ground
In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a "sparkler" who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene, safe water, childcare, and more. "Reserved" Mary established Purdue's School of Home Economics, created Indiana's first nursery school, and authored a popular textbook. Both women used their natural talents and connections to achieve their goals in spite of a male-dominated society. As a land grant institution, Purdue University has always been very connected to the American countryside. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.
Ever True
In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning faculty, record-setting astronauts, laureled humanists, researchers, and leaders of industry. Its thirteen colleges and schools span the sciences, liberal arts, management, and veterinary medicine, boasting more than 450,000 living alumni. Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg captures the essence of this great university. In this volume, Norberg takes readers beyond the iconic redbrick walls of Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus to delve into the stories of the faculty, alumni, and leaders who make up this remarkable institution’s distinguished history. Written to commemorate Purdue University’s sesquicentennial celebrations, Ever True picks up where prior histories leave off, bringing the intricacies of historic tales to the forefront, updating the Purdue story to the present, and looking to the future.
The Making of an Engineer
When did formal engineering education begin? Even if we could shine a light into the murky shadows of prehistory, a precise answer would no doubt be impossible. All we know for sure is that engineering has been part of the driving intellectual energy of economic development and social change throughout the world for millennia. Fortunately, we have a much clearer picture of the origins of engineering education in the United States and Canada. In fact, the history of engineering education in North America is closely linked to the history of the ASEE itself—when the Society was founded in 1893, formal education was just becoming universally accepted as the means for entry into engineering pra...
One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering
One hundred years ago, in September 1888, Professor Lewis Mills Norton (1855-1893) of the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced to the curriculum a course on industrial chemical practice. This was the first structured course in chemical engineer ing taught in a University. Ten years later, Norton's successor Frank H. Thorpe published the first textbook in chemical engineering, entitled "Outlines of Industrial Chemistry." Over the years, chemical engineering developed from a simple industrial chemical analysis of processes into a mature field. The volume presented here includes most of the commissioned and contributed papers presented at the American Che...
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.
The Debris for ...
None
Indiana Jewish History
Other publications available: • Jimmy Guilford. A Jewish History of Purdue 1920-1940. Andrey Abraham Potter: The Man for All Reasons. H. Gordon & Sons Department Store. The Story Of David S. Redelsheimer. Congregation B’nai Judah in Whiting, Indiana. 2015 • Aaron-Ruben-Nelson Mortuary, Inc. Werner Leo Loewenstein, M.D. The Singing Camp: The Musical Tradition Of Myron S. Goldman Union Camp Institute. Abe Silverstein: Father of the U.S. Space Program. 2014 • Bonds as Strong as Steel: A history of Indiana scrap metal dealers and their families. 2011 • There are Jews in Southern Indiana: The Bloomington Story. By Katie Himm and Lana Ruegamer Eisenberg. October 2009 • The Middletown Jewish Oral History Project II. December 2005 • A Century of Jewish Education in Indianapolis: 1860 to 1960. By Lindsey Mintz. A Tree Of Life: An Early History of the Indianapolis Bureau of Jewish Education. July 2003 • Beginnings of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society. By Max Einstandig. 1993
