In most schools I know in the US and Canada, there is a school/college/faculty of Engineering that is separate from Arts and Sciences/Liberal Arts. Other separate colleges are typically smaller and specifically trade oriented, with cohorts of students taking many similar courses over their careers (i.e. Music or Education). Engineering, on the other hand, can house students studying Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, or Environmental engineering that may never take an engineering course together after their first year, and which work more closely with departments outside the college. How did Engineering become its own administrative division in universities?