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Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
In 1906, the Lawrence Scientific School was dissolved and its undergraduate and graduate programs were separated. Students wishing to earn a Bachelor of Science degree without a designated field could earn a non-professional BSc. in Harvard College (1906-1915). During this period, however, the Graduate School of Applied Science conferred higher level professional degrees in engineering.
From 1916 to 1921, BSc degrees were conferred on Harvard undergraduates through an agreement with MIT. This arrangement, established in 1914, was outlawed by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in a decision in 1917. This led to Harvard's establishment of the Harvard Engineering School in 1918.
When incorporated into the Harvard Engineering School in 1934, the program offering professional graduate degrees was renamed the Graduate School of Engineering.
In 1946-1949, the Graduate School of Engineering merged its faculty with the undergraduate program's faculty (the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics) to form the Division of Engineering Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
In 1951, the Division of Engineering Sciences merged further with the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics to form the Division of Applied Science.
After various permutations of the name, in 1996, the name was changed to the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (DEAS).
In 2007, the DEAS was transformed into the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
