named schools of engineering. A number of engineering schools are named after their benefactors or are known by different names from their present parent institutions, often because of their origins or because they have been subsequently endowed. Among the schools of engineering in these categories are the following:

Armour Institute of Technology. In 1940, this Chicago institution merged with the Lewis Institute to become the Illinois Institute of Technology. According to IIT's history, the Armour Institute had its origins in an 1890 sermon preached by the minister Frank Wakely Gunsaulus (1856–1921), in which he declared that if he had a million dollars he “would build a school where students of all backgrounds could prepare for meaningful roles in a changing industrial society.” The sermon inspired the owner of America's largest meatpacking company, businessman Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. (1832–1901), to found the namesake institute, which opened in 1893. The Lewis Institute, a liberal arts, science, and engineering college, dated from 1895. It had been founded by Allen Cleveland Lewis (1821–1877), a Chicago real estate investor.

Carnegie Institute of Technology. This Pittsburgh institution was founded in 1900 as a “first class technical school” by the steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919). In 1967 it merged with the city's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913 by the banker-industrialist brothers Richard Beatty Mellon (1858–1933) and Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937), to form Carnegie-Mellon University, which has since dropped the hyphen in its name.