This timeline notes the College of Engineering’s contributions to Silicon Valley and to pre-Silicon Valley during its 75 years

“Over the years, San Jose State engineering students, faculty and staff have had the gut feeling that we have been major participants in one of the world’s great stories of success: the development of Silicon Valley and the concurrent development of a truly outstanding College of Engineering in the center of the Valley.” Norman O Gunderson, Dean Emeritus, 1991