Georgia Tech President Blake Van Leer oversees creation of a Department of Industrial Engineering housing 15 students and three professors working in two borrowed rooms in the Swann Building.
Frank Groseclose, who will later become known as the “father of industrial engineering” at Georgia Tech, becomes the first professor.
The Georgia School of Technology is renamed to the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the department becomes the School of Industrial Engineering.
The School establishes a chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and awards its first Master in Industrial Engineering.