The Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Tech or CIT), one of the predecessors to Carnegie Mellon University, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. His stated intention was to build a "first class technical school" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the children of local steel mill workers. In about a century, it has expanded from four small programs to become Carnegie Mellon.
Since 1970, Carnegie Institute...
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The Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Tech or CIT), one of the predecessors to Carnegie Mellon University, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. His stated intention was to build a "first class technical school" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the children of local steel mill workers. In about a century, it has expanded from four small programs to become Carnegie Mellon.
Since 1970, Carnegie Institute of Technology refers to the college of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
By 1905, the massive buildings of the Carnegie Technical Schools were being constructed in a field east of the University of Pittsburgh. The first students of the School of Science and Technology began classes in unfinished buildings, still surrounded by new construction. The school initially offered two- and three-year programs to train the children of Pittsburgh's working class.
In 1912, with the original campus nearly complete and three more schools (the...
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