Engineering a new archive
When W. Cully Hession (agricultural engineering '84, M.S. '88), professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, chanced upon thousands of photographs and documents deep within Seitz Hall—some dating back to 1915—he knew he'd found the mother lode of Virginia Tech's agricultural engineering history.
The materials—since compiled in a digital collection titled "Project No. 10," the name of the entity that originally funded Tech's agricultural engineering department, today's Department of Biological Systems Engineering—have already proven valuable to researchers and historians alike, Hession said.