Purdue University

Environmental & Hydraulic Engineering Area

1874	Purdue University opens
1887	Civil Engineering School opens
1891	Civil Engineering opens new Hydraulics Laboratory
1891	Civil Engineering Head, Professor Alfred E. Phillips, teaches mandatory 'Hydraulics' course
1892	Civil Engineering Professor Percy Hunt Richardson teaches first 'Sanitary Engineering' course NOTE: MIT taught the first 'sanitary engineering' course only three years earlier (1889)!
1893	Professor Richardson leaves Purdue; Sanitary Engineering subsequently taught by Professor Phillips
1894	CE Head (Phillips) retires and is replaced by Professor Fred Morley (nickname 'Chilly Rat')
1896	Civil Engineering hires new Professor Daniel B. Luten as Professor of Architecture and Sanitary Engineering
1896	Purdue President James H. Smart states need for engineering students "who can gives us better water supply and better systems for sewage from our cities and towns "....who will be worth as much to the community as the cost of all the technical schools in the United States for the past twenty-five years."
1904	Civil Engineering hires Professor Charles V. Seastone as Professor of Hydraulics
1907	Civil Engineering hires Professor Ralph Lemuel Sackett (nickname "Baldy") as Professor of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering
1910	Civil Engineering hires Professor Ralph B. Wiley as Professor of Hydraulics
1926	Civil Engineering hires Professor Warren E. Howland as Professor of Sanitary Engineering
1943	Civil Engineering hires Professor Don E. Bloodgood as Professor of Sanitary Engineering
1944	Civil Engineering begins 1st Annual Industrial Waste Conference

Last Modified:17 January 2001 - alleman@ce.ecn.purdue.edu