<p>[University</a> of Alabama News UA Engineering Scholar Named Alabama’s ASCE Student of the Year](<a href=“http://uanews.ua.edu/2010/07/ua-engineering-scholar-named-alabamas-asce-student-of-the-year/]University”>http://uanews.ua.edu/2010/07/ua-engineering-scholar-named-alabamas-asce-student-of-the-year/)</p>
<p>congrats to that dude!
Was it the first in the South?</p>
<p>Probably, Auburn didn’t exist in 1837.</p>
<p>does anyone know which college was the first to offer engineering classes in the US? i know RPI was the first tech college…and UVa had the first engineering college connected to a university</p>
<p>yale and harvard didn’t offer engineering until the 1850’s…</p>
<p>hmmmm…maybe UVirginia? </p>
<p>Can’t find a list.</p>
<p>I distinctly remember being told back in the day that UA was the second university in the US to offer engineering classes, Rennsaller (sp) Polytechnic Institute being the first.</p>
<p>ahh…</p>
<p>Rensselaer was the first. </p>
<p>I wonder why Bama doesn’t just say it’s the second if indeed it is.</p>
<p>Yup, RPI was the first. It awarded the first Civil Engineering degree in the US in 1835 (it was founded in 1824).</p>