
Milwaukee School of Engineering
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is a private university located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of fall 2011, the university had an enrollment of more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
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College History
Milwaukee School of Engineering was founded in 1903 by Oscar Werwath and initially called the School of Engineering of Milwaukee. Werwath was the first person to plan an American educational institution based on an applications-oriented curriculum. MSOE's logo was designed by industrial engineer Brooks Stevens, initially for the school's 1978 Diamond Jubilee.
College Specialty
To support the mission, principles, and goals of MSOE and to build interdepartmental cooperation, communication and collaboration. To be customer-driven, customer-responsive, and service-oriented, and to regularly evaluate who are customers are and what they need. To regularly evaluate that customers are changed as a result of contact with the library, and to regularly verify that the library provides value to MSOE. To recruit and retain a highly qualified, effective and numerically sufficient staff. To motivate library staff to high levels of achievement, encouraging continuing development and staff enhancement.
Alumni
James I. Finley (1968, EE), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Carl Kiekhaefer (c. 1925, no degree), former owner of Mercury Marine, NASCAR team owner. Joseph J. Rencis (1980, Architectural and Building Construction Engineering Technology (ABCET)), ASME Fellow Harout O. Sanasarian, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Larry A. Schotz (1973, EET), inventor of the car radio adapter for CD players and founder of LS Research Norman Sussman, Wisconsin State Senator
Campus
Urban 20 acres (8.1 ha)