Names of Department
1888-1889 Mining Engineering
1889-1920 Mining Engineering and Metallurgy
1920-1927 Mining, Metallurgy and Geology
1927-1937 Mining and Metallurgy
1937-1967 Metallurgy
1967-1975 Metallurgy and Materials Science
1975- Materials Science and Engineering
1865-1871 Geology and Mining
1871-1872 Geology and Mining Engineering (assigned Course III)
1874 Metallurgy was established at MIT (Course VI)
1884 Metallurgy absorbed into Course III
1888-1889 Mining Engineering
1889-1920 Mining Engineering and Metallurgy
1920-1927 Mining, Metallurgy and Geology
1927-1937 Mining and Metallurgy
1937-1967 Metallurgy
1967-1975 Metallurgy and Materials Science
1975- Materials Science and Engineering