The departments were initially housed in the Sheds (de Hallen), but as the specialised buildings became available they moved into the eastern area of the campus. Chemical Engineering moved into the CT building (now the Langezijds),[23a] Electrical Engineering was housed in the Electrical Engineering and Physics building (now Hogekamp),[23b] and Mechanical Engineering relocated to the Mechanical Engineering building (now de Horst).[23c] The departmental chairs, Breedveld, Van Hasselt, Lievegoed and Vlugter, had formulated a number of clear goals during the preparatory phase. Van Hasselt wanted his department to concentrate on production, its means and organisation. In his view, chemical equipment was tied to chemical technology and, via micromechanical techniques, to electrical engineering. Breedveld wanted to limit himself to systems science and control engineering. Vlugter, in the chemical engineering department, wanted to focus on general process technology and material science, while Lievegoed wanted to set up a research and education centre in the General Science department. The mathematical chairs, which were distributed between the departments, were in principal at the service of the problems encountered in the other disciplines. However, as early as 1964 Van Hasselt stated his view that a mathematical education should be a matter of course. The mathematicians were working in a sort of diaspora and right from the start they aspired to their own homeland – a mathematics faculty, or at least a department. Not everybody agreed with them. In 1966 Breedveld, in his inaugural address, lobbied against the ambition of the mathematicians and physicists to have their own department. “… Training in the discipline alone will never be able to contribute any insights into the way science is interlinked, let alone into the interrelationships in technology, which might not be mentioned in legislation, sadly, but which is possibly even more important. Given technology’s increasingly multidisciplinary nature, it is this sort of insight that is vital to the engineer.”
[23b] T he Electrical Engineering and Physics building, Hogekamp [23c] The Mechanical Engineering building, de Horst
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