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Title: College of Engineering, Administrative files of C. [Charles] Martin Duke.
Date (inclusive): 1943-1967.
Record Series number: 52
Creator:
College of Engineering.
Extent:
11 boxes (4.6 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 52 contains reports, committee minutes, and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the College of Engineering
at UCLA. Predominant subjects include activities of faculty, curriculum design, departmental organization including a master
plan study, annual commencement program and dinner, and business of the Engineers Council for Professional Development.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], College of Engineering, Administrative files of C. [Charles] Martin Duke. (Record Series Number
52). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
The College of Engineering at UCLA traces its beginning to a two-year program of instruction instituted in 1919 when the Los
Angeles State Normal School was incorporated into the University of California. Students wanting to go beyond this two-year
program had to transfer to the Berkeley campus or to other universities until 1941 when the Regents authorized full instruction
in engineering on the Los Angeles campus.
In 1944, Llewellyn M. K. Boelter was appointed the first Dean of the College of Engineering. A single undergraduate curriculum
has emphasized fundamentals common to all engineers; specialization occurs either in the senior year, during graduate study,
or on the job.
C. Martin Duke (b.1917-d.1988) was educated as a civil engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. He later served
as a professor of engineering at UCB and UCLA and as the chairman of the Engineering Department and associate dean of the
College of Engineering at UCLA. Research interests included earthquake engineering, soil mechanics, and the effects of earthquakes
on site structures.
Record Series 52 contains reports, committee minutes, and correspondence pertaining to the operation of the College of Engineering
at UCLA. Predominant subjects include activities of faculty, curriculum design, departmental organization including a master
plan study, annual commencement program and dinner, and business of the Engineers Council for Professional Development.
This is an inactive Record Series; no additional University records are expected to be added.