Case School of Applied Science awarded Wickenden the honorary Doctor of Engineering, 1929.
The Case Alumni Association awarded Wickenden the Meritorious Service Award for leadership of the College, for service to government, for participation in civic and professional affairs, 1941.
Western Reserve University awarded Wickenden the honorary Doctor of Humanities, 1947.
The William L. and Marion L. Wickenden Prize was originally established by President and Mrs. Wickenden. Additional contributions were made by friends as a memorial to President Wickenden. The prize was awarded annually to a senior or junior who showed special proficiency in writing or speaking, 1947.
Case dedicated the William E. Wickenden Electrical Engineering Building to recognize his “unselfish devotion to this College and to engineering education," 1955.
Career
Instructor, Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York, 1904-1905
Instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1905-1909
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909-1914
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1914-1918
Personnel Manager, Western Electric Company, 1918-1921
Regional Supervisor, Personnel Methods, Student Army Training Corps, 1918
Assistant Vice-President, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1921-1923
Director of Investigation of Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 1923-1929
University Numbers
1929/30
1946/47
Enrollment
689
2,221
Number of faculty
69
162
Expenditures
$420,000
$1,702,783.44
Tuition per year
$350
$350
Milestones
The mining program was discontinued.
1929
The Great Depression, triggered by the October 29 stock market crash, began a decade of worldwide economic hardship.
A comprehensive program of graduate studies and degrees was introduced.
1930
New programs in engineering administration, mechanics of fluids, electrical communication were established.
The humanities programs were reorganized into two departments, Language and Literature and Social Studies.
1932
A business option was introduced into each curriculum, making Case the first to provide business training as an option in all its courses of study rather than as a separate program.
1933
The Evening Division was organized and Case’s partnership with Western Reserve University to operate Cleveland College ended.
1938
Superman comic books were first published.
1939
Countries around the world were plunged into World War II.
Case Building and Endowment Campaign was intended to raise $5 million. The campaign, which raised less than $1 million, was cancelled because of “uncertainty of the domestic situation and heightened war unrest.”
1940
The Case Fund was inaugurated as a medium for giving by graduates and friends under the direction of the Alumni Fund Board.
1942
1944
GI Bill of Rights (formally: The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) was signed into law.
Case School of Applied Science was renamed Case Institute of Technology.
1947
Bell Labs invented the transistor.
Regional Population
1930
1950
Cleveland
900,429
914,808
Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.
