Records relating to projects and initiatives undertaken by the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University and related programs for the years 1924 - 1985. These records contain articles, brochures, budget records, clippings, photographs, memoranda, and correspondence. Included is information on faculty members, lectures, and department finances.
The School of Textiles (later College of Textiles) at North Carolina State University began classes in the fall of 1899, primarily due to Daniel Tompkins's interest in having a textile program at what was then the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Since 1963, the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management (TATM) has functioned as a discrete department (albeit under several different names) within the the College of Textiles. Of course, the College of Textiles has conducted research since its earliest days, both independently and in collaboration with corporate and government partners. And it appears that many of the College's pre-1963 research records have been merged with those of the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management.
Textiles education at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) began in 1899 due to Daniel Tompkins's interest in having a textile program. George Franks Ivey taught the first course in textiles. The next year the college expanded this program; Ivey left and Henry M. Wilson joined the faculty as an instructor in cotton manufacturing. The college offered courses such as carding and spinning, weaving, textile designing, and textile chemistry and dyeing. The courses provided students with specialized expertise to operate mills and use advanced scientific research in the textiles industry.
Since emerging as its own department within the School of Textiles in 1963, the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management has been known by several departmental names: Textile Technology (1963 - 1973); Textile Materials and Management (1973 - 1981); Textile Management and Technology (1981 - 1985); Textile and Apparel Management (1985 - 1996); and finally Textile and Apparel Technology and Management (1996 - present). In all its incarnations, the department has educated undergraduate and graduate students for careers in the fiber, textile, and apparel industry complex. The mission of the department has been accomplished by offering Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degree programs that seek to develop leadership and promote academic excellence for both students and faculty. These programs have been designed to provide students with a background in fundamental concepts of scientific, technological, and management principles, and an ability to define and solve challenging technological problems through advanced experimental and computational techniques. An essential component of the department's mission has been the development of new knowledge through research and the subsequent transfer of this knowledge to both the textile industry complex and society.
The following list of department heads only covers the period from the early 1970s on. Although the department was founded a decade earlier, before 1972 it was assigned a "Graduate Administrator" in lieu of a department head.
This subgroup contains records relating to projects and initiatives undertaken by the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management and related programs for the years 1924 - 1985. These records contain articles, brochures, budget records, clippings, photographs, memoranda, and correspondence. Included is information on faculty members, lectures, and department finances.
Organized into the following series: (1) Research and Teaching Files, (2) Corporate Partnership Files, (3) Peruvian Contract Files, (4) Administration Files, and (5) Web Content. Within series, files are arranged alphabetically.
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[Identification of item], North Carolina State University, College of Textiles, Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management Records, UA 130.021, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Transferred from the North Carolina State University College of Textiles.
Web content harvested using the Internet Archive's Archive-It services.
Processed and Encoded by Chad Morgan; finding aid updated by Gevorg Vardanyan, 2023 July.
The collection is organized into five principal series:
This series includes general research articles, lectures, and white papers conducted by members of the College of Textiles. Much of the material predates the formal creation of the Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management, but was added to the collection, because the research falls under the department's purview. Box 22 of this series is a legal-sized box for oversized items that have been removed from their original folders.
These items are oversized and have been moved to box 22 of this series.
This series contains materials related to corporate educational and research partnerships formed by the department. The materials include correspondence, financial reports, conference proceedings, and photographs.
This series includes materials related to a contract between the North Carolina State University College of Textiles and Peru's national engineering college from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, which mandated collaboration on textile research and a faculty and student exchange program. Materials in this series include contracts, correspondence, equipment inventories, photographs, reports, and "voicewriter" recordings.
This series includes materials related to the administration of the department, including equipment inventories, meeting minutes, memoranda, and proposals for changes in the curriculum.
This series is comprised of web sites of NC State University’s Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management, captured by the NC State University Libraries since July 2016 using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It web archiving service, with prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to December 2015, which may be less complete and was performed at undetermined intervals.
This is the official website of the Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management at NC State University. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured quarterly since July 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to December 2015, which may be less complete and performed at undetermined intervals.
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[Identification of item], North Carolina State University, College of Textiles, Department of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management Records, UA 130.021, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.