Moore School of Electrical Engineering
The
Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on
June 4,
1923. It was granted to the Penn's School of Electrical Engineering, located in the Towne Building. The Moore School is particularly famed as the birthplace of the US computer industry; it was here that
ENIAC was built and led to the formation of the
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
The Moore School has been integrated into Penn's
School of Engineering and Applied Science. It no longer exists as a separate entity; however, the 3-story structure itself still stands and is known on campus as the Moore Building.
* A complete
history for all of Penn Engineering, indistinct from the Moore School
