Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
seems to fail ; most university departments aren't notable in their own right. There are exceptions like Harvard Law School, the Cavendish Laboratory et al, but this doesn't seem to be at that point.Being the first department of its kind is interesting and on the face of it seems take it towards notability, but it doesn't stand scrutiny at all, since many older scientific/industrial training institutions were founded as some kind of vocational or technical college and only became a university (or merged with one) later. To give two British examples, the Royal School of Mines was founded 57 years earlier, and merged with Imperial College London in 1907, both before this department was set up. Mason Science College is more than thirty years older; it merged with the University of Birmingham in the end, seven years before this department was set up. Being "the oldest academic engineering department of a specific kind attached to a specific kind of academic institution" is a very weak claim. You can make anything the first of its kind if you apply enough caveats, and the lack of coverage given to this claim outside of the university's own history speaks volumes
— User:Blythwood, 17:08, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BRANCH (Wikipedia:Notability)