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The Council: A Profile
The Engineering College Council was created as an advisory board to the dean in the 1940s, during the administration of Solomon Cady Hollister. It was one of the first - perhaps the very first - of the college advisory councils at Cornell.
For some years, the president of the university served as chairman of the council. Through 1948-49, this was Edmund Ezra Day. The acting president, Cornelius W. deKiewiet, served for two years, and then President Deane Malott was chairman through 1955-56. Since then, the membership of the council has included people from industry and academia, both alumni and nonalumni. Their function was and is to advise the college administration on long-range planning and development in all aspects of the program, notably instruction, research, and, increasingly, cooperative ventures with industry.
For more profile information please download the Engineering College Council biography booklet.
Navigating this Site
This ECC space is a wiki. Wiki's are collaborative web spaces that allow for easy creation and editing of any number web pages using a standard web browser. This wiki is run on software called Confluence.
There are four main sections of this site:
- Home Page - showing how to get to the next three sections
- Member Biographies Section - shows member biography pages
- Previous Meetings Section - shows the pages for all the old ECC meetings
- Current Meeting Section - shows the page for the upcoming ECC page
Each of these sections can be navigated to using the left sidebar buttons. Within each section are links to sub-pages that will show biographies or meetings and even uploaded documents.
In addition to the sidebar buttons, you can navigate through the space using the 'breadcrumb' links along the top bar, which show your current location relative to all the pages in the space.