North Carolina State University. Dept. of Industrial Engineering.

The first record of industrial engineering as a curriculum at North Carolina State University appears in the Spring 1930 college catalog. Although a four-year program is described, no graduates or faculty are listed. At the time, both N. C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill had engineering programs, and State had a School of Science and Business which had a degree in Industrial Management. A few years later, all engineering was transferred to State and all business curricula to Chapel Hill. The 1931-32 catalog named Howard Burton Shaw as the sole Professor of Industrial Engineering.

The first degrees were granted in 1933 to Henry K. Saunders and Harold E. Thomason. That year, the department had eleven enrollees. In 1934 two more degrees were granted, one of them to Raymond E. Shafer who later served many years as head of the Industrial engineering department at West Virginia University . During these pre-World War II years, enrollment continued to be small, and the number of degrees per year remained less than ten. During these years, the departmental classrooms and offices were in the Civil Engineering Building (now the backside of Daniels Hall, opposite the Park Shops Building). In April 1940, the catalog promised that other quarters would be provided in the near future. These proved to be "Rooms 125 to 132, 1911 Dormitory." The department stayed in the 1911 Building until Riddick Laboratories were completed and the department moved there in 1950.

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