Starfleet Engineering Manual
STARFLEET ENGINEERING
STARFLEET ENGINEERING HISTORY
Captain (later Commodore) W.M. Jefferies, the first Director of Starfleet Engineering
Starfleet Engineering was established in the summer of 2136 as an effort to begin the process of Starfleet constructing and operating its own spacecraft independent of the United Earth Space Probe Agency. Upon its creation, Starfleet Engineering held forty members and occupied an office on the first floor of UESPA headquarters in Houston on Earth. By the beginning of 2137, Starfleet Engineering had nearly tripled in size, divided into three branches overseeing warp propulsion research, starship design, as well as a general administrative office.
The first location of the Starfleet School of Engineering, located in two hangers of the Starfleet Engineering Complex
In the summer of 2137, Starfleet Engineering was relocated to Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. In 2140, the offices of Starfleet Engineering were relocated again to the new Starfleet Engineering Complex. By July 2141, Starfleet Engineering Directive #7 formally began the process to transfer control of the Earth Drydock from UESPA to Starfleet control by the beginning of 2142. This directive was modified five months later through Starfleet Operations Directive #52, which ordered the Starfleet takeover of the Earth Drydock to coordinate with the results of the NX Project. Following the breaking of the Warp 2 barrier in 2143, the following year Starfleet Command Order #5 ordered the expansion of Starfleet Engineering and the full assumption of shipyard operations at the Earth drydock by Starfleet.
On June 22, 2144, Starfleet Engineering formally opened the Starfleet School of Engineering which was originally located in two converted hangers of the Zephram Cochrane Spaceflight Center. The original School of Engineering staff consisted of twenty-two Starfleet engineer officer and enlisted instructors; at the time of its opening, the sole course offered was the Starfleet Electrician Course.