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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.

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[[Image:MooreSchool001.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Moore School of Electrical Engineering]]

The '''Moore School of Electrical Engineering''' was a school at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. The school was integrated into the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science]].

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 4th4, 1923. The EndowmentIt was placedgranted on theto UniversityPenn's School of Electrical Engineering, located in the campus' Towne Building. The first dean of the Moore School was [[Harold Pender]].

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:

The Moore School is particularly famed as the birthplace of the computer industry:

*<b>1925</b> [[Graduate Program]] in [[Electrical Engineering]] offered.

* It was here that the first general-purpose Turing complete digital electronic computer, the [[ENIAC]], was built between 1943 and 1946.

*<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.

* Preliminary design work on the [[ENIAC]]'s successor machine the [[EDVAC]] resulted in the [[stored program]] concept used in all computers today, the logical design having been promulgated in [[John von Neumann]]'s ''[[First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC]]'', a set of notes synthesized from meetings he attended at the Moore School.

* [[Moore School Lectures|The first computer course]] was given at the Moore School in Summer 1946, leading to an explosion in computer development all over the world.

* Moore School faculty [[John Mauchly]] and [[J. Presper Eckert]] founded [[Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation|the first computer company]], which produced the [[UNIVAC I|UNIVAC]] computer.

[[Image:Two women operating ENIAC (full resolution).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Programmers operate the [[ENIAC]]'s main control panel at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. "U.S. Army Photo" from the archives of the ARL Technical Library. Left: [[Jean Bartik|Betty Jean Jennings]]; right: [[Frances Spence|Fran Bilas]].]]

*<b>1928</b> First evening Engineering Graduate Program (in Electrical Engineering) offered.

The Moore School has been integrated into Penn's [[University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]]. It no longer exists as a separate entity; however, the three-story structure itself still stands and is known on campus as the Moore School Building. Originally constructed in 1921 as a two-story building by Erskin & Morris, it was renovated in 1926 by [[Paul Philippe Cret]] and a third story was added in 1940 by [[Alfred Bendiner]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/buildings.php|title=School Buildings|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127051159/http://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/buildings.php|archive-date=November 27, 2015|access-date=August 11, 2011}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref>

==Notes==

*<b>1935</b> [[Differential Analyzer]] completed (world's largest mechanical computing machine).

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*<b>1936</b> Graduate Program in [[Chemical Engineering]] offered.

From* thisA point, Penn's website lists thecomplete [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/historyabout-seas/history.htmlphp history for all of Penn Engineering], indistinct fromincluding the Moore School, as follows:.

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*<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.

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*<b>1947</b> Third floor added to Moore Building.

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*<b>1951</b> Department of Chemical Engineering established.

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*<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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