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Nils Otto Myklestad
Nils Otto Myklestad (March 24, 1909 – September 23, 1972) was an American mechanical engineer and engineering professor.[1] An authority on mechanical vibration, he was employed by a number of important US engineering firms and served on the faculty of several major engineering universities. Myklestad made significant contributions to both engineering practice and engineering education, publis
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Jack Boyd Buckley
Jack Boyd Buckley (February 6, 1926 – October 9, 2007 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) was a civil engineer and building consultant based in Houston, Texas. He played a major role in the construction of numerous high-rise buildings and amusement parks throughout the world, including Pennzoil Place and Greenway Plaza in Houston, and was involved in the design of the air conditioning system of the Astrod
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Frederick W. Lander
Frederick William[1][2] Lander (December 17, 1821 – March 2, 1862) was a transcontinental United States explorer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a prolific poet. Lander was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Edward and Eliza West Lander; his sister was the sculptor Louisa Lander. He was educated at Governor Dummer Academy, Phillips Academy, Andover and No
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Irwin Lachman
Irwin Lachman (born August 2, 1930) is a co-inventor of the catalytic converter. Lachman was born August 2 in Brooklyn, New York in 1930 and grew up in Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey, and attended Upper Freehold Township High School (later renamed Allentown High School).[1] Lachman was born in Brooklyn, New York, where late his family moved to New Jersey, attending the public schools.[2] He re
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Gordon L. Park
Gordon Lesley Park (June 29, 1937 – March 11, 2010) was a petroleum engineer and geologist for the Chevron Oil Company, who served from 1993 to 1996 as a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from District 49 in Uinta County. Park was born to Harold Gordon Park and the former Iva Hazel Edwards (born 1917) in Lexington in Cleveland County in central Oklahoma. He was reare
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Fairman Rogers
Fairman Rogers (November 15, 1833 – August 22, 1900) was an United States civil engineer, educator, and philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853, and taught civil engineering there from 1855 to 1871.[1] He was one of four professors who founded its Department of Mines, Arts and Manufacturers (1855), and he served as a Univers
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Sarkes Tarzian
Sarkes Tarzian (October 5, 1900 – November 17, 1987) was an Ottoman-born United States engineer, inventor, and broadcaster. He was ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire. He and his family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1907, following their persecution by Ottoman Turks.[1] "His father escaped to America from the Turkish massacres of Armenians, and got a job as
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Marcin Kiciński
Freight and passenger transport and logistics, Sustainability transport and logistics, Transport infrastructure development, Military logistics (military air bases), Transport accessibility. Methods and techniques: multicriteria decision making (MCDM/MCDA), multiple criteria optimization, mathematical modelling. 2014-2015: postgraduate studies: project manager of research and dev
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Ray M. Bowen
Ray M. Bowen is an American academic. He served as the twenty first president of Texas A&M University from 1994 until 2002.[1] He served as Interim President of Oklahoma State University (OSU) from 1993 until 1994, and Provost and VP for Academic Affairs at OSU from 1991 until 1993. He was Dean of Engineering at the University of Kentucky from 1983 until 1989.[2] At The University of Kentucky, h
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Nikolaos Papadakis
Dr. Nikolaos Papadakis is an accomplished mechanical engineer with a strong educational background and extensive work experience. He embarked on his academic journey at the 2nd General Lyceum of Heraklion, Crete, from 1989 to 1992, where he cultivated a passion for science and engineering. Driven by his interest in the field, Dr. Papadakis pursued a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at the Poly
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