Edwin B. Rollins attended Tufts College, graduating in 1901. Upon graduation, Rollins joined Tufts' engineering faculty as an instructor of physics and electrical engineering. He became assistant professor in 1910 and in 1928 was made full professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tufts. He served as acting dean of the engineering school from 1927 to 1929. In 1948 he received the alumni association's Distinguished Service Award Over the years at Tufts, Rollins, in addition to his academic and administrative activities, built a full-scale model telephone office, a collection of lamps, wrote a history of the first forty years of electrical engineering at Tufts, and compiled in notebooks a history of buildings and gates on the Medford campus.
From the description of Edwin B. Rollins papers 1860-1976. (Tufts University - Tisch Library). WorldCat record id: 768854282
