| February 1958 |
Faculty officially installed by Senate |
| February 1958 |
John W. Hodgins appointed first Dean of Engineering |
| October 1958 |
New engineering building opened. Designed for 550 undergraduate
students and 125 graduate students. |
| 1961 |
First class of 25 students graduates with four-year B.Eng.
degrees |
| 1961 |
Kipling Camp 13 established at McMaster to present iron
rings to graduating undergraduate engineering students |
| 1965 |
First doctoral degrees awarded |
| 1969 |
Leslie W. Shemilt appointed Dean (1969 –1979) |
| May 1969 |
Applied Dynamics Laboratory officially opened |
| 1971 |
Engineering & Management Program launched |
| Mid 70's |
First bioengineering electives offered with Health Sciences |
| 1975 |
John H.T. Wade appointed Acting Dean (1975, 1981) |
| 1976 |
First female MES President, Susan Sproule |
| 1978 |
Engineering building named after John W. Hodgins, first
Dean |
| 1978 |
Engineering alumni office established |
| 1978 |
Alexander Graham Bell Lecture series initiated |
| 1979 |
John Bandler appointed Dean (1979 – 1981) |
| 1981 |
Arthur C. Heidebrecht appointed Dean (1981 – 1989) |
| 1984 |
Communications Research Laboratory Building opened |
| 1985 |
Engineering Redsuits started by Mark Huttram |
| 1988 |
John W. Hodgins Memorial Lecture Series initiated |
| 1989 |
Gary R. Purdy appointed Dean (1989 – 1994) |
| 1991 |
JHE Annex addition completed |
| 1992 |
Engineering & Society Program launched |
| 1994 |
Mamdouh Shoukri appointed Dean (1994 – 2001) |
| 1997 |
MacLAB Endowment Fund established by MES President, Janet
Loebach |
| 1997 |
Bachelor of Technology degree in manufacturing technology
offered in collaboration with Mohawk College |
| 2001 |
Mo Elbestawi appointed Dean (2001 – 2007) |
| 2001 |
Information Technology Building opened |
| 2001 |
JHE extension added to house the newly created MMRI |
| 2001 |
McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute launched |
| 2003 |
Information Technology Building Annex opened |
| 2006 |
School of Engineering Practice established |
| 2006 |
School of Biomedical Engineering established |
| 2006 |
School of Computational Science and Engineering established |
| 2006 |
McMaster-Mohawk Bachelor of Technology Partnership formed |
| 2006 |
10,000th undergraduate engineering student graduates |
| 2007 |
Construction begins on new engineering research and education
building |
| 2007 |
Peter Smith appointed Acting Dean |
| 2008 |
David S. Wilkinson appointed Dean |
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