Industrial engineering's core curriculum can be traced to 1919 when an industrial engineering option was offered to students studying mechanical engineering. (Courses in general engineering - as it was then called - were first initiated in 1905.) J.O Keller - a Penn State graduate and one of the first students in the country to earn an IE degree - served as director of the new program at Iowa State. The Department of General Engineering (GE) - a predecessor to industrial engineering - was established in 1929 and was based in Marston Hall. This early curriculum consisted of classes in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering as well as economics. Frank Paine served as GE's first department chair from 1929 until his death in 1942. Joseph Walkup was appointed as Paine's successor and served as chair until his retirement in 1973. In 1956, the department's name was changed from General Engineering to Industrial Engineering. Between the 1960s and 1980s the curriculum included a combination of courses in engineering and management. In 1989 IE became the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and the curriculum became to place more focus on manufacturing. The department moved to its current home in Black Engineering Building in 1999 during which time the number of laboratory facilities increased from six to 16. As of spring 2018, IMSE consisted of 518 undergraduate students, 179 graduate students, 23 faculty members, 12 staff members, and more than 4,200 alumni. Because the predecessor to the IE curriculum was first established in 1919, the department has opted to celebrate a mini centennial in 2019. https://www.imse.iastate.edu/100-years-of-ie/#departmenthistory
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