New Moore School of Electrical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania

Prior to the fall of 1914, the courses in electrical and mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania were given in a single department of the Towne Scientific School, known as the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. The growth in the number of students taking electrical engineering, together with the steadily increasing importance of this branch of the engineering field, led the Trustees of the University in the fall of 1914 to establish an independent department of Electrical Engineering.