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Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses. Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses, and uses a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike license.
Engineering education at Yale began more than a century before the founding of a School of Engineering. In the first half of the nineteenth century, chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman made fundamental contributions to the fractional distillation of petroleum, and his son, chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr., commercialized the process as a fuel source. [1]
In 1853 and 1854, science and engineering courses were listed in the Yale College course catalog as offered by the Yale Scientific School. Porter elicited help from his father-in-law, Joseph Earl Sheffield (1793-1882), and in 1858, Sheffield donated over US$100,000 to purchase the old Medical Department building for the scientific school.
One year later the Yale Engineering Association (YEA) was founded on December 4, 1914, at a meeting attended by 40 alumni. [6] Membership was open to any Yale graduate although “the association naturally appeals more strongly to those who are engaged in engineering pursuits, transportation or manufacturing."
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
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In October 1894, the senior class of Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School (or the “Sheff”) published the first issue of the Yale Scientific Monthly. The Monthly was founded in response to “the rapid growth of the Scientific School, and the important position it was attaining in the affairs of the University", [2] such that "the establishment of a representative undergraduate periodical ...
The Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Library, formerly Cross Campus Library, is a Yale University Library building holding frequently-used materials in the humanities and social sciences. Located underneath Yale University's Cross Campus, it was completed in 1971 in a minimalist-functionalist style designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes .