FIRST GRADUATION IN 1908 
In June, 1908, the institute awarded its first diplomas, 
graduating students in chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical 
and metallurgical engineering from the College of Engineer- 
ing, and students in architecture from the College of Fine 
Arts. On April 20, 1912, the name Carnegie Technical 
Schools was changed officially to the Carnegie Institute of 
Technology, and the institution received from the State of 
Pennsylvania a charter of incorporation with the power to 
confer degrees. The first degrees were given at the fifth com- 
mencement, in June, 1912. 
The College of Engineering gives courses leading to the 
bachelor of science degree in chemical, civil, commercial, 
electrical, mechanical and mining engineering, and in chem- 
istry, physics, and mathematics. A limited number of fellow- 
ships for a year’s graduate work in mining and metallurgy are 
granted each year, for which the master of science degree is 
conferred. These fellows work in cooperation with the United 
States Bureau of Mines on research problems, and the results 
of their investigations, which are published, are recognized 
by the mining profession throughout the world as of great 
value. 
A bureau of metallurgical research was established a few 
years ago, and it has already justified its creation. Many of 
the problems of the steel industry are brought to it for solu- 
tion. 
An international conference on Bituminous Coal was 
held at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in November, 
1926, which was attended by over 1,700 delegates from all 
sections of the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, 
France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Czechoslo- 
vakia and Japan, representing states, cities, universities, 
learned societies, business and industry. A second Inter- 
national Conference on Bituminous Coal will be held under 
the auspices of the Institute in November of 1928. 
The College of Industries, which is a pioneer in its field, 
gives the bachelor of science degree for four-year courses in 
building construction, works management, printing and in- 
dustrial education. The aim of these courses is to furnish to