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| 1858 |
The will of businessman Charles McMicken is probated in Cincinnati. It leaves land and money to the city to found a university. Cincinnati City Council establishes the McMicken University one year later. |
| The University Of Cincinnati is established using funds from the two boards of Woodward and Hughes High Schools, the Ohio Mechanics Institute, Farmers' College, Cincinnati College, and the McMicken fund. |
1870 |
| 1873 |
The university opens with freshman classes taught at Woodward High School, by Woodward faculty. |
| Classes move into the new university building on the McMicken estate at Vine Street and Clifton Avenue. |
1875 |
| 1889 |
Cincinnati City Council sets aside part of Burnet Woods, UC's present site, for the university, which has an enrollment of one hundred twenty. |
| Professor Ward Baldwin's civil engineering students devote the entire academic year to a complete topographical survey of the Burnet Woods hill which became the new site of the university. |
1892 |
| 1900 |
The College of Engineering is formally established under Dean Harry Thomas Cory. |
| Herman Schneider becomes dean and inaugurates his co-op plan in the Departments of Chemical, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering, with an enrollment of twenty-seven students. The courses are six years long, nine months a year. |
1906 |
| 1911 |
The engineering building is ready for occupancy. In 1930 it is named Baldwin Hall in memory of Cincinnati publisher Francis Howard Baldwin, who left a large bequest in trust to the university. |
| The Chemistry Building, the second structure in the engineering quadrangle, is completed. |
1916 |
| 1920 |
The first seven women engineering students are admitted to the cooperative courses in commercial and chemical engineering. |
| The Department of Architecture is established in the college. It grows to become the School of Applied Arts in 1924, with courses in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior decoration. The full name of the college becomes the College of Engineering and Commerce School of Applied Arts. |
1922 |
| 1926 |
Swift Hall, the third building of the engineering quadrangle, is completed. |
| The college, with the rest of the country, goes to war. Most extracurricular activities cease, enrollment plummets, and many professors take leave for war duties. |
1941 |
| 1946 |
The college splits into three separate co-operative Colleges of Engineering, Business Administration, and Applied Arts. |
| In September all freshmen on campus begin courses on the new quarter system. The upperclassmen follow in January, and for the first time, the co-ops are on the same schedule as the rest of the student body. |
1963 |
| 1967 |
By consent of the city's voters, UC becomes a state-affiliated, municipally sponsored university. |
| UC celebrates its sesquicentennial. The many ceremonies include setting the cornerstone for Rhodes Hall. |
1969 |
| 1977 |
UC becomes a state university. |
| The Ohio Board of Regents earmarks funding for a new research and graduate education building for the College of Engineering. |
1990 |
| 1992 |
Construction begins for the new building. The college shows no signs of slowing its drive for excellence and innovation in engineering education. |
| The 175,000-sq. ft. Engineering Research Center is dedicated in June. |
1995 |
| 2001 |
The college celebrates its Centennial with a year-long program of activities and events culminating in a mid-summer gala for alumni/ae, faculty, staff and friends of the college. |
| After two years of renovation, conservation, and infrastructure modernization, Baldwin Hall is reopened, resuming its role as the focus of undergraduate education and featuring: state-of-the-art electronic classrooms; wireless computing network; renovated HVAC-Systems with air conditioning; and a remodeled engineering library. |
2002 |
| 2002 |
The college opens the first ACCelerated ENgineering Degree (ACCEND) program in the department of civil and environmental engineering - offering top students the opportunity to complete both a BS in civil engineering and an MS in environmental engineering in 5 calendar years. |
