University of Wisconsin-Platteville

in the United States. It changed its name to the "Wisconsin Institute of Technology" in 1939.
The merged school took the name "Wisconsin State College and Institute of Technology" in 1959. In 1966, along with Wisconsin's other state colleges, it was granted university status as "Wisconsin State University–Platteville". It took its current name, the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, after the Wisconsin State University system merged with the University of Wisconsin in 1971.
Starting in the late 1960s, the University of Wisconsin–Platteville expanded its academic program and established new colleges, the largest being a business college. The mining college was transformed into an engineering college encompassing mining, electrical, mechanical, and eventually electronic engineering. In the late 1980s, the mining engineering degree was phased out because of falling enrollment. By that time it had been overshadowed by the other engineering degrees.
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