Case School of Engineering is home to the first accredited computer engineering degree in the nation. The program received accreditation in 1971, but traces its beginnings to a 1956 installation of an IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine in the old Morley Chemistry Lab, creating the university’s first computing center.
This hub moved to the Frank Adgate Quail Building, where engineering faculty members led numerical methods classes. Another move would later take computing activities to the Crawford Building, which brought with it the addition of many new majors and a new name: the Department of Computer Engineering and Science.
