Timeline
- 1885 - Michigan Mining School (MMS) Created
- 1886 - First Classes Held in Fire Hall
- 1887 - First Physics Classes held
- 1889 - Hubbell Hall being built, School
moves in.
- 1890 - Hubbell Hall Completed,
First Math & Physics Professor hired
(Arthur E. Haynes)
- 1893 - Fred W. McNair Replaces
Haynes
- 1895 - James Fisher Starts
as instructor
- 1897 - Name Changed to Michigan College
of Mines (MCM)
- 1899 - McNair Becomes MCM President, Fisher
in Charge of Math & Physics
- 1901 - Tamarack Mine Experiments begin
- 1917-1918 - US Involved in WWI; McNair at
NBS
- 1924 - McNair Dies in Train Wreck
- 1927 - Name changed to Michigan College
of Mining and Technology (MCMT)
role expanded, new physics courses added.
- 1933 - B.S. in General Science introduced.
- 1934 - Geophysics Research prospers
- 1941 - Physics Major under B.S. in General
Science first Appears
- 1944 - Fisher faces
mandatory retirement
- 1945 - Math and Physics Departments Split
- 1946 - B.S. in Physics, Engineering Physics,
and Geophysical Eng. introduced
Sault Ste Marie Branch Campus Opens
- 1950's - Enrollment Growth
- 1954 - MS in Physics Announced
Physics Prof. becomes Director of
Sault Ste Marie Branch
- 1957 - Major overhaul of curriculum as
Van Pelt becomes Pres.
- 1958 - Engineering Mechanics Courses
move to new EM dept
- 1961 - B.S. in Engineering Physics renamed
Applied Physics
- 1964 - Name Changed to Michigan Technological
University, scope broadened
Physics Moves out of Hubbell into Fisher Hall
- 1966 - Sault Campus becomes Lake Superior
State University (LSSU)
- 1967 - Nuclear Physics Research Emphasized
- 1968 - College of Sciences and Arts formed, Hubbell Hall demolished
- 1970 - Highway moved from North to South
side of Fisher Hall
- 1970's - Push for research causes strife
in department
- 1974 - Geophysics major moves to Geology
- 1981 - Second push for Research Emphasizes
Solid State/Materials Physics
Physics of Solids" option to Metallurgy
PhD Starts
- 1986 - CEC established
in present form from earlier incarnations
- 1987 - Physics PhD Program Approved
- 1999 - Physics Research Expenditures
top $1M
- 2000 - Change to Semester system
- 2001 - PhD in Engineering Physics
added
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