Records of the University of Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station
Scope and Content
Series 9 contains records of several directors, associate directors, and assistant directors of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station. This series contains records of Deans Benton, Van Leer, and Weil related to the Engineering Experiment Station and EIES up to 1949. (Other records related to EIES are found in Series 19, Administrative policy records of the Dean of the College of Engineering.) It also includes the records of Director Morgen (1949-1952), as well as his records as Assistant Director prior to 1949, and Assistant Directors David Barry Smith (1949-1954) and Robert Marion Forsman (1955-1964). Much of the series pertains to research projects funded by defense agencies. However, there are records related to Florida's industrial development including material on the Florida State Improvement Commission and the Florida Nuclear Development Commission. A file entitled Historical Materials contains significant documents related to the development of EIES and the University's nuclear energy program.
Dates
- Creation: 1919-1964
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1941-1964
Creator
Access
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Biographical/Historical Note
The predecessor of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES) at the University of Florida was the Engineering Experiment Station created, but not funded, by the Florida Board of Control in 1929. The Dean of the College of Engineering served as the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. When the state legislature created EIES in 1941, Dean Joseph Weil was appointed its first director. He served as the director until 1949, when Ralph Alexander Morgen became the Station head. (Morgen was listed as Assistant Director prior to then.) Upon his departure in July, 1952, the directorship reverted to the Dean of the College of Engineering. Following that, the overall responsibility for the development and guidance of EIES was delegated to the College's Associate Dean for Research.
Extent
30.2 Linear feet (73 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of several directors, associate directors, and assistant directors of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station at the University of Florida.
Arrangement
The series is divided into two subseries, 9a (1919-1958) and 9b (1958-1964). Subseries 9a is divided into two sections. The first is a alphabetically arranged subject file. The second is a genre file containing speeches, reports, project proposals, minutes, manuscripts to articles, budgets, and other records types. Subseries 9b consists of a single alphabetical subject file.
Physical Location
University of Florida Smathers Library Building
Subject
- Florida. Nuclear Development Commission. (Organization)
- Florida State Improvement Commission. (Organization)
- Morgen, Ralph A. (Ralph Alexander), 1903- (Person)
- Smith, David B. (David Barry.) (Person)
- Weil, Joseph, 1897- (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to the Records of the University of Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Dept. Staff
- Date
- August 2011
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Repository
George A. Smathers Libraries
PO Box 117005
Gainesville Florida 32611-7005 United States of America
352-273-2755
special@uflib.ufl.edu