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The '''Moore School of Electrical Engineering''' at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on June 4th, 1923. The Endowment was placed on the University's School of Electrical Engineering in the campus' Towne Building.
'''Alexander's Star''' is a mechanical [[puzzle]] invented by Adam Alexander in [[1982]]. It is a [[great dodecahedron]] with 30 moving pieces, which rotate in star-shaped groups of five around the outermost vertices. The challenge of the puzzle is to get it to a state in which each star is surrounded by five faces of the same color, and opposite stars are surrounded by the same color; this is equivalent to solving just the edges of a six-color [[Megaminx]].
From this point, Penn's website lists the [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/history/history.html history for all of Penn Engineering], indistinct from the Moore School, as follows:
[http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/alexandr.htm Alexander's Star]
*<b>1925</b> [[Graduate Program]] in [[Electrical Engineering]] offered.
*<b>1926</b> Site (factory manufacturing musical instruments, S.W. corner of 33rd and Walnut) acquired for Moore School. Graduate Program for Fuel Engineering offered.
*<b>1928</b> First evening Engineering Graduate Program (in Electrical Engineering) offered.
*<b>1935</b> [[Differential Analyzer]] completed (world's largest mechanical computing machine).
*<b>1936</b> Graduate Program in [[Chemical Engineering]] offered.
*<b>1946</b> [[ENIAC]] (world's first electronic large-scale, general-purpose digital computer) dedicated. First computer course offered (graduate-level, through Electrical Engineering). Department of Metallurgical Engineering established.
*<b>1947</b> Third floor added to Moore Building.
*<b>1951</b> Department of Chemical Engineering established.
*<b>1952</b> Electromedical Division of Moore School established (first significant laboratory effort in its field in the country).
*<b>1953</b> Graduate Program in Systems Engineering offered.
*<b>1954</b> Department of [[Chemistry]] transferred to College of Arts and Sciences. Four departments of Towne Scientific School become, with Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the five Engineering Schools (School of Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Metallurgical Engineering).
*<b>1959</b> Pender Laboratory dedicated.
*<b>1960</b> Towne School of [[civil engineering|Civil]] and [[Mechanical Engineering]] established.
*<b>1961</b> Program in [[Biomedical]] Electronic Engineering offered (first Ph.D. Program in this field in the country).
*<b>1963</b> Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) dedicated.
*<b>1965</b> Moore School Graduate Research building dedicated.
*<b>1971</b> Trustees approve single Degree of [[Bachelor of Science]] in Engineering (B.S.E.) rather than baccalaureate degrees designed by individual discipline.
*<b>1972</b> Valley Forge Research Center established. Undergraduate Program in Computer Science and Engineering offered (prior to 1972, part of Electrical Engineering). Reorganization of the Faculties of the Schools of Engineering into single Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. (5 May)
*<b>1973</b> College of Engineering and Applied Science formed with Departments of [[Bioengineering]], Chemical Engineering, Civil and [[Urban Engineering]], Computer and Information Science (Undergraduate Program--Computer Science and Engineering), Electrical Engineering and Science, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Metallurgy and Materials Science, Systems Engineering (Undergraduate Program--Systems Science and Engineering). Undergraduate Program in Bioengineering offered. Faculty approve Bachelor of Applied Science Degree Program in addition to Bachelor of Science in Engineering Degree Program. (8 May)
*<b>1974</b> Applied Science Program established. Undergraduate Program in Systems Engineering offered (prior to 1974, part of Electrical Engineering).
*<b>1976</b> Management and Technology Program established.
*<b>1977</b> Curriculum Deferred Option offered to incoming Engineering and Applied Science freshmen.
*<b>1979</b> Metallurgy and Materials Science renamed Materials Science and Engineering. (1 July) College of Engineering and Applied Science renamed School of Engineering and Applied Science. (16 August)
*<b>1982</b> Civil and Urban Engineering renamed Civil Engineering. (10 December)
*<b>1983</b> Electrical Engineering and Science reorganized as Electrical Engineering. (1 July) Undergraduate Computer and [[Cognitive Science]]s Program offered. Graduate Group in Transportation established; Master of Science in Transportation offered.
*<b>1984</b> Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science offered. Center for [[Artificial Intelligence]] established.
*<b>1986</b> Departments of Civil Engineering and Systems Engineering reorganized as Department of Systems. (1 July) Center for Sensor Technologies established.
*<b>1987</b> Faculty approve Executive Master of Science in Engineering (ExMSE) Program. (10 November) Center for Communications and [[Information Science]] and Policy established.
*<b>1988</b> ExMSE Program offered.
*<b>1990</b> Bachelor of Applied Science in Biomedical Science offered. Bachelor of Applied Science in [[Environmental Science]] offered. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science established.
*<b>1992</b> Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical, Materials Science, and Systems Science offered.
*<b>1993</b> Faculty approve minor in Cognitive Science with School of Arts and Sciences.
*<b>1994</b> Center for Human Modeling and Simulation established. Department of Systems renamed Department of Systems Engineering. (1 July)
The Moore School is part of and as been integrated into Penn's [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ School of Engineering and Applied Science]. It no longer exists as a separate entity.
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