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Indeed, VMI certainly offered "engineering" (the meaning of the term changed
considerably even in the short time b/w, say 1840 and 1875) in the
antebellum era, along with the Citadel, but getting faculty anywhere was problematic,
and many were imported. Most famous in Virginia, probably Claudius Crozet.
Most of home-grown can only be described as autodidacts. It's interesting to
note that one of the great engineering feats in the history of the country
was done when there WERE no professional, home-grown engineers: the Erie Canal.
As a side note, the land-grant schools were begun as ag schools; it was only
later that the emphasis in many switched to engineering.
Jim Watkinson
James D. Watkinson
History Department
Virginia Commonwealth University
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