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realitygrill

Harvard didn't have an engineering department until a few years ago (might be year 5 or 6 now).

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You're off by over 150 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School...

Harvard invented one of the first computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

What you might be misremembering is that

> In February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers voted for the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

realitygrill is probably thinking about the new SEAS campus that mxwsn mentioned. I think they started planning the campus around the time of that renaming.

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