College of Engineering and Architecture Records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0058
Scope and Contents
The collection is organized into the series by department and further organized into sub-series. The Engineering Series is organized into the following sub-series: Annual Reports Sub-Series, Accreditation Sub-Series, Faculty Sub-Series, Honors Day Sub-Series, Special Programs Sub-Series, Curriculum Sub-Series, Recruitment/Public Relations Sub-Series, Departmental Chairs Sub-Series, Historical Background Sub-Series, Deans Office Sub-Series, Committees, Task Forces, Commissions Sub-Series. Architecture and Landscape Architecture Department Series is organized into the following sub-series: Departmental Background Sub-Series, Meetings Sub-Series, Committees, Task Forces, Commissions Sub-Series, Correspondence and Memoranda Sub-Series, Architecture (Arch) Curriculum Sub-Series, Landscape Architecture (LA) Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Publications Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series, Public Relations Sub-Series. The Civil Engineering Department Series is organized into the following sub-series:
Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Publications Sub-Series, and Recruitment Sub-Series. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Series consists of Departmental Background Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Publications and Recruitment Sub-Series. The Community and Regional Planning Series contains studies and reports, and curriculum for the graduate program. Construction Management and Engineering Department Series contains reports and brochures. Engineering Physics Department Series includes a fact sheet. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department Series consists of Departmental Background Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series. The Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department Series consist of Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series. Petroleum Engineering Department Series consist of Correspondence and Memoranda Sub-Series, Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Recruitment/Public Relations Sub-Series. Publications Series consist of Newsletters Sub-Series, General Sub-Series, Periodicals Sub-Series.
The Dennis Colliton Series contain papers which provide a detailed overview of Colliton’s professional life from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s. In particular, the courses, accreditation, and professional business series provide in-depth information on courses taught by Colliton over a twenty-five-year period, the process and background on the establishment of the landscape architecture component of architecture and landscape architecture at NDSU, and the wide and diverse variety of projects that Colliton worked on as a professional landscape architect. The other six series provide additional material and insights into Colliton’s professional life. Although a restricted series, the design theses series gives an excellent overview of what many of Colliton’s students were working on.
The nine sub-series are: Conferences, Professional Organizations, Courses, Design Theses (Restricted), Research, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (DALA), Accreditation, Professional Business, University Materials, and Plans.
The Dennis Colliton Series contain papers which provide a detailed overview of Colliton’s professional life from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s. In particular, the courses, accreditation, and professional business series provide in-depth information on courses taught by Colliton over a twenty-five-year period, the process and background on the establishment of the landscape architecture component of architecture and landscape architecture at NDSU, and the wide and diverse variety of projects that Colliton worked on as a professional landscape architect. The other six series provide additional material and insights into Colliton’s professional life. Although a restricted series, the design theses series gives an excellent overview of what many of Colliton’s students were working on.
The nine sub-series are: Conferences, Professional Organizations, Courses, Design Theses (Restricted), Research, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (DALA), Accreditation, Professional Business, University Materials, and Plans.
Dates
- 1928 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyrights to this collection is held by The North Dakota State University Archives.
Biographical / Historical
The College of Engineering and Architecture's roots are found in the first university Bulletin (May 1892), with the establishment of the Department of Mechanics. A four-quarter curriculum was offered which included wood and metal-working shops as well as mechanical drawing. With the arrival in 1893 of Edward S. Keene, Professor in Mechanical Engineering (eventual first Dean of the School of Mechanic Arts), courses in steam engineering, thermo-dynamics and dynamo-electric machines were added to the curriculum. This two-year program was supported by a mechanical laboratory erected in the same year.
The department underwent a number of name changes between 1894 and 1907: Department of Mechanics & Physics - 1894-1895, Department of Mechanics - 1895-1898, Department of Mechanics and Physics – 1899-1904; Department of Mechanical Engineering & Physics - 1904-1906, and the Department of Engineering & Physics - 1907-1917. During this period of time the comprehensive four-year curriculum in mechanics was developed, an engineering building was built, now known as South Engineering, and majors in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, steam engineering (2 year), physics, and course work in free hand drawing was offered. It was in the 1916-1917 Bulletin the division of Architecture and Architectural Engineering is first reported. When the School of Mechanic Arts was established in 1917, the following divisions were established: architecture and architectural engineering, civil engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and physics. In the 1922-23 Catalog, industrial engineering is no longer a division and as of the 1923-24 Catalog, all the divisions have now become departments. In the 1927-1928 Catalog, the Department of Mechanical Engineering becomes the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. As of the 1935-1936 Bulletin, the Department of Chemistry is added. In the 1939-1940 Catalog, the Department of Agricultural Engineering is added and the Department of Chemistry is now located in the School of Chemical Technology . In the 1940-1941 Bulletin, there are separate departments for Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. In 1949, an additional engineering building was approved by the legislature, originally called North Engineering, but changed to Dolve Hall in 1954. Complimentary to Dolve Hall was the construction of the Architecture Quonset, used as the aeronautical engineering laboratory. In the 1950-1951 Catalog, the Department of Agricultural Engineering is added to the School of Engineering. As of the 1954-1955 Bulletin, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management was added.
In 1962, the College of Engineering became the College of Engineering and Architecture. In the 1962-1964 Catalog, Industrial Engineering and Management became just Industrial Engineering. As Engineering continued to expand at NDSU, in the early 1960s plan for an Engineering Center were developed and ground breaking took place in 1963. As of the 1965-1967 Bulletin, the Department of Physics was located within the College of Chemistry and Physics. As of the 1967-1969 the Department of Electrical Engineering expanded and became the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. As of the 1970-1972 Bulletin, the Department of Architecture was now listed, as well as a set curriculum in Construction Management. In the fall of 1971, a graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was established in the College. In the 1974-1976 Bulletin, management is added back to industrial engineering to create then Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and mechanical engineering became the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In the 1978-1980 Bulletin, construction management became the Department of Construction Management and Engineering.
In 1983, a Petroleum Engineering Program was established as a component of the Engineering Science Department, a division within the College of Engineering and Architecture. The program officially began in the academic year 1986-1987. Due to budget cuts the Petroleum Engineering program was discontinued in 1995.
The 1984-1986 Bulletin shows the addition of Engineering Science as well as the Department of Landscape Architecture, which had been approved in 1983. In the spring of 1990, the graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was cut. The 1990-1992 Bulletin reflects a few changes in departments within the college: Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Division of Civil Engineering and Construction. In the 1992 Bulletin, the Department of Engineering Technology was added. In the 1994-1996 Bulletin, the Military Science (Army ROTC) and the Aerospace Science (Air Force ROTC) have moved from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the College of Engineering and Architecture. In addition, Civil Engineering and Construction is now a department, no longer a division. As of the 1996-1998 Bulletin, the following departments were listed: Agricultural Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering and Construction, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In 1998, a new building was added to the Engineering Center, Ehly Hall. As of the 1998-2000 Bulletin, Agricultural Engineering became the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Industrial Engineering became Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. As of May 12, 1999 the NDSU Department of Electrical Engineering became the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As of the 2006-2008 Bulletin, the following departments are listed: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
Dennis Colliton was born January 24, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York. The family moved to Minot, North Dakota and Dennis graduated from Minot High in 1969. He received his bachelor’s in Architecture at North Dakota State University [NDSU] in 1974. He earned a master’s of landscape architecture from Cornell University in 1976 and his initial professional registration as a landscape architect in 1980.
Colliton joined the faculty of architecture at NDSU in 1976. In 1983, Dennis, with Cecil Elliot, the Chairman of the Architecture Department, founded the landscape architecture program. In 1986 he became the Program Director of landscape architecture program, and except for 1997-1998 when he served as department chair, he served continuously in the position. He oversaw the initial accreditation process for the program in 1991. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dennis was also owner of Dennis Colliton Landscape Architects, Fargo.
Dennis was honored at NDSU for his teaching, faculty service, and advising eight times. These honors included teaching excellence awards from both the department and College of Engineering and Architecture.
He was named a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects in October 2000. He was widely published, “and he provided community service design work that benefited communities throughout the Great Plains region, including his work for the Sheyenne River Scenic Byways. On a grant basis, he assisted the North Dakota Department of Transportation on highway beautification and transportation enhancements from 1990-2003. As a practicing landscape architect, his creative design work included the ceremonial landscape garden at the NDSU Alumni Center.” (It’s Happening at State, August 27, 2003, p. 4)
He served on boards of advisers for the International Peace Garden, the North Dakota State Capitol grounds, the NDSU campus, and the Clearing Landscape Institute in Wisconsin, as well as on the executive board of the Great Plains Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects.
After the tearing down of the old Mechanical Arts building in 1993, which was adjacent to the northwest of the South Engineering building, a fountain was constructed, but due to leaks and numerous maintenance problems, ideas about replacing it we discussed. In 2002, Dennis spearheaded a landscape architecture competition and ‘babbling brook’ concept won the competition. Unfortunately, on August 17, 2003, Dennis passed away unexpectedly. Nevertheless, construction on the ‘babbling brook’ began in May of 2004. In the spring of 2005, the ‘babbling brook,’ now renamed the Dennis C. Colliton campus Memorial was dedicated/
Dennis married Kathleen O’Flaherty in 1981 and they had one son, Brett.
In 1962, the College of Engineering became the College of Engineering and Architecture. In the 1962-1964 Catalog, Industrial Engineering and Management became just Industrial Engineering. As Engineering continued to expand at NDSU, in the early 1960s plan for an Engineering Center were developed and ground breaking took place in 1963. As of the 1965-1967 Bulletin, the Department of Physics was located within the College of Chemistry and Physics. As of the 1967-1969 the Department of Electrical Engineering expanded and became the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. As of the 1970-1972 Bulletin, the Department of Architecture was now listed, as well as a set curriculum in Construction Management. In the fall of 1971, a graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was established in the College. In the 1974-1976 Bulletin, management is added back to industrial engineering to create then Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and mechanical engineering became the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In the 1978-1980 Bulletin, construction management became the Department of Construction Management and Engineering.
In 1983, a Petroleum Engineering Program was established as a component of the Engineering Science Department, a division within the College of Engineering and Architecture. The program officially began in the academic year 1986-1987. Due to budget cuts the Petroleum Engineering program was discontinued in 1995.
The 1984-1986 Bulletin shows the addition of Engineering Science as well as the Department of Landscape Architecture, which had been approved in 1983. In the spring of 1990, the graduate program in Community and Regional Planning was cut. The 1990-1992 Bulletin reflects a few changes in departments within the college: Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Division of Civil Engineering and Construction. In the 1992 Bulletin, the Department of Engineering Technology was added. In the 1994-1996 Bulletin, the Military Science (Army ROTC) and the Aerospace Science (Air Force ROTC) have moved from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the College of Engineering and Architecture. In addition, Civil Engineering and Construction is now a department, no longer a division. As of the 1996-1998 Bulletin, the following departments were listed: Agricultural Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering and Construction, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In 1998, a new building was added to the Engineering Center, Ehly Hall. As of the 1998-2000 Bulletin, Agricultural Engineering became the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Industrial Engineering became Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. As of May 12, 1999 the NDSU Department of Electrical Engineering became the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As of the 2006-2008 Bulletin, the following departments are listed: Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
Dennis Colliton was born January 24, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York. The family moved to Minot, North Dakota and Dennis graduated from Minot High in 1969. He received his bachelor’s in Architecture at North Dakota State University [NDSU] in 1974. He earned a master’s of landscape architecture from Cornell University in 1976 and his initial professional registration as a landscape architect in 1980.
Colliton joined the faculty of architecture at NDSU in 1976. In 1983, Dennis, with Cecil Elliot, the Chairman of the Architecture Department, founded the landscape architecture program. In 1986 he became the Program Director of landscape architecture program, and except for 1997-1998 when he served as department chair, he served continuously in the position. He oversaw the initial accreditation process for the program in 1991. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dennis was also owner of Dennis Colliton Landscape Architects, Fargo.
Dennis was honored at NDSU for his teaching, faculty service, and advising eight times. These honors included teaching excellence awards from both the department and College of Engineering and Architecture.
He was named a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects in October 2000. He was widely published, “and he provided community service design work that benefited communities throughout the Great Plains region, including his work for the Sheyenne River Scenic Byways. On a grant basis, he assisted the North Dakota Department of Transportation on highway beautification and transportation enhancements from 1990-2003. As a practicing landscape architect, his creative design work included the ceremonial landscape garden at the NDSU Alumni Center.” (It’s Happening at State, August 27, 2003, p. 4)
He served on boards of advisers for the International Peace Garden, the North Dakota State Capitol grounds, the NDSU campus, and the Clearing Landscape Institute in Wisconsin, as well as on the executive board of the Great Plains Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects.
After the tearing down of the old Mechanical Arts building in 1993, which was adjacent to the northwest of the South Engineering building, a fountain was constructed, but due to leaks and numerous maintenance problems, ideas about replacing it we discussed. In 2002, Dennis spearheaded a landscape architecture competition and ‘babbling brook’ concept won the competition. Unfortunately, on August 17, 2003, Dennis passed away unexpectedly. Nevertheless, construction on the ‘babbling brook’ began in May of 2004. In the spring of 2005, the ‘babbling brook,’ now renamed the Dennis C. Colliton campus Memorial was dedicated/
Dennis married Kathleen O’Flaherty in 1981 and they had one son, Brett.
Extent
28 Linear Feet
141 Items
Language of Materials
English
Overview
The collection is organized into the series by department and further organized into sub-series. The Engineering Series is organized into the following sub-series: Annual Reports Sub-Series, Accreditation Sub-Series, Faculty Sub-Series, Honors Day Sub-Series, Special Programs Sub-Series, Curriculum Sub-Series, Recruitment/Public Relations Sub-Series, Departmental Chairs Sub-Series, Historical Background Sub-Series, Deans Office Sub-Series, Committees, Task Forces, Commissions Sub-Series. Architecture and Landscape Architecture Department Series is organized into the following sub-series: Departmental Background Sub-Series, Meetings Sub-Series, Committees, Task Forces, Commissions Sub-Series, Correspondence and Memoranda Sub-Series, Architecture (Arch) Curriculum Sub-Series, Landscape Architecture (LA) Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Publications Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series, Public Relations Sub-Series. The Civil Engineering Department Series is organized into the following sub-series:
Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Publications Sub-Series, and Recruitment Sub-Series. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Series consists of Departmental Background Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Publications and Recruitment Sub-Series. The Community and Regional Planning Series contains studies and reports, and curriculum for the graduate program. Construction Management and Engineering Department Series contains reports and brochures. Engineering Physics Department Series includes a fact sheet. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department Series consists of Departmental Background Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series. The Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department Series consist of Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Recruitment Sub-Series. Petroleum Engineering Department Series consist of Correspondence and Memoranda Sub-Series, Curriculum Sub-Series, Reports and Documents Sub-Series, Subjects Sub-Series, Recruitment/Public Relations Sub-Series. Publications Series consist of Newsletters Sub-Series, General Sub-Series, Periodicals Sub-Series.
The Dennis Colliton Series contain papers which provide a detailed overview of Colliton’s professional life from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s. In particular, the courses, accreditation, and professional business series provide in-depth information on courses taught by Colliton over a twenty-five-year period, the process and background on the establishment of the landscape architecture component of architecture and landscape architecture at NDSU, and the wide and diverse variety of projects that Colliton worked on as a professional landscape architect. The other six series provide additional material and insights into Colliton’s professional life. Although a restricted series, the design theses series gives an excellent overview of what many of Colliton’s students were working on.
The nine sub-series are: Conferences, Professional Organizations, Courses, Design Theses (Restricted), Research, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (DALA), Accreditation, Professional Business, University Materials, and Plans.
The Dennis Colliton Series contain papers which provide a detailed overview of Colliton’s professional life from the mid-1970s through the early 2000s. In particular, the courses, accreditation, and professional business series provide in-depth information on courses taught by Colliton over a twenty-five-year period, the process and background on the establishment of the landscape architecture component of architecture and landscape architecture at NDSU, and the wide and diverse variety of projects that Colliton worked on as a professional landscape architect. The other six series provide additional material and insights into Colliton’s professional life. Although a restricted series, the design theses series gives an excellent overview of what many of Colliton’s students were working on.
The nine sub-series are: Conferences, Professional Organizations, Courses, Design Theses (Restricted), Research, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (DALA), Accreditation, Professional Business, University Materials, and Plans.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred by Unknown (unknown Acc.#).
Separated Materials
The following have been separated and stored with the other VHS tapes in drawer 5.
*Thesis Projects, Class of 1990, compliments of Paul Hannemann – 6 hours *1994 Thesis Exhibit Memorial Union Alumni Lounge *Accreditation Display Architecture/Landscape Architecture - Spring 1995 *The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area – A Lot More Than you’d Expect – 1996 (local production – Steve Stark) *Architecture 171: Materiality & Technology – Video Presentation Prof. Rik Ekstrom, 1990s
*Thesis Projects, Class of 1990, compliments of Paul Hannemann – 6 hours *1994 Thesis Exhibit Memorial Union Alumni Lounge *Accreditation Display Architecture/Landscape Architecture - Spring 1995 *The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area – A Lot More Than you’d Expect – 1996 (local production – Steve Stark) *Architecture 171: Materiality & Technology – Video Presentation Prof. Rik Ekstrom, 1990s
Legal Status
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the College of Engineering and Architecture Records
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository
Contact:
West Building
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Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building
3551 7th Avenue N
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu