After Merger

Polytechnic News Special Issue

Poly merged with NYU School of Science and Engineering in 1973, bringing up an integration of programs and courses from both institutes.

electrical engineering new degree designations

ORSA new degree designations

Computer science became a Bachelor of Science degree, while Master's and Doctor's degrees remained undesignated. At the same time, system engineering remained in ORSA department.

cover image of the computer science page

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The images on the front page of computer science introduction in course catalog 1975/1976. The first one was a mechanical computer, which was wierd considering CS studied digital computers only. The second one was photo of a computer lab, assumably taken in Poly near 1975.

computer science curriculum in 1975

electrical music composition

The new computer science curriculum under EE department. The course structure became even more complete than the graduate program in the pre-merger era, with the understanding of fundamentals, the method of programming, and various applications. It was almost the same as the modern CS curriculum, except for the unavailable technologies back then such as networks. There was also an interesting elective called "electronic music composition," which does not exist now, at least in Tandon. Music production using computers might have been a highly technical skill in the 70s, hence the listing under CS, but as personal computers and composition softwares popularized, the skill returned to purely musical.