Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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ONE! f Q .iW. 11. ,I , CIVIL ENGINEERING The course in civil engineering, the first engineering curriculum to be given at the Institute, was the first to be founded in any English-speaking country and gave the first civil engineering degree in 183 5. At first a more gen- eral course, as other fields have been opened and new courses instituted, it has be- come basically a course in construction and surveying, but the undergraduates are given instruction in all the engineering departments so as to fit them for executive as Well as engineering positions. Its graduates are famous as bank presidents and geologists alike. THOMAS R. LAWSON, G. E., Head of Department of Civil Engineering, Professor of Rational and Technical M echanies. R. P. I., '98, 9122, TBH. Born Dec. 24, 1873, at Wheeling, W. Va. Wheeling Public Schools and Business College. Entered R. P. I. Faculty in 1898 as mechanics instructor. As- sistant professor, 1903, associate professor, 1906, professor, 1909, head of Civil Engineering Department, 1921, structural and sanitary consulting engineer. Past president, S.E.E.N.Y., member American Society of C.E., member, Ameri- can Welding Society, member, American Concrete Institute, president, Clay Products Institute, vice-president, A.S.T.M., member, Harbor and Dock Com- mission, Troy, member, A.S.C.E. Stress Committee of Elevated Temperatures Research. Author, Notes on Mechanics, Design of Plate Giwlers, Stresses in Bridges. Contributor to engineering periodicals.

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PREHDENTS 1824 REV. SAMUEL BAGHFORD, D.D. , , . Ist President 1828- REV. JOHN CHESTER, D.D. ,... . . 2nd President 1829- ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 3rd President 1845- NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. , . . . . . 4th President 1865- HON. JOHN F. NVINSLOXV ,,., . . . 5th President 1868- THOMAS C. BRINSIVIADE, M.D. . , . . . 6th President 1868- HON. JAIVIES FORSYTH, LL.D. ...,..,.. , . . 7th President I888-OI JOHN HUDSON PEGR, LL.D. ,...,.....,. , . . 8th President I9OI- PALMER C. RIGRETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D. , , . . . , 9th President TRUSTEES EDWARD C. GALE, C.E. HENRY COLVIN, ESQ. HORACE G. YOUNG, C.E. LIVINGSTON W. HOUSTON, C.E. ALFRED H. RENSHAW, C.E. JOHN W. DOTY, C.E. STEWART JOHNSTON, C.E. EDWIN S. JARRETT, C.E. GEORGE S. DAVISON, C.E. PERCIVAL SAX, C.E. PHILIP W. HENRY, C.E. GEORGE T. HORTON, C.E. C. W. T. BARKER, C.E. ROYAL G. FINCH, C.E. SANFORD L. CLUETT, C.E. ALLAN D. COLVIN, C.E. DOCTOR BEN J. W. ARNOLD THOMAS EARLE, C.E. JOHN M. SHANNAI-IAN, C.E. ALUMNI MORRIS R. SHERRERD, C.E. WM. P. GREAGER, C.E. SENIOR PROFESSORS AND DIRECTORS 1824- AMOS EATON, A.M. ........,.....,.......,.. Senior Professor 1842-46 GEORGE H. COOK, C.E., Ph.D. ,........, . . . Senior Professor 1847-59 B. FRANKLIN GREENE, C.E., B.N.S., A.M. , , ....... Director 1859-60 NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. .......... .... D irector 1860-76 CHARLES BROWNE, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . . . .... Director 1876-78 WILLIAM L. ADAMS, C.E. ..,....,.,, .... D irector 1878-91 DAVID M. GREENE, C.E. .........,...., .... D irector I892- PALMER C. RICKETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . . .... Director fi, lgllgllglijfu .In ge arg-EF,

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DEPART E T PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS QP THE DEPT. LEROY W. CLARK, C.E., professor of Mechanics, R. P. I., 'o6. Author of Meclaanics for Engi- 7ZB61'S. TBII, 23. I-IORACE BERNARD COMPTON, C.E., assistant professor of Rational and Technical Mechanics R. P. I., ,I9. EE. EDWARD J. KILCAWLEY, C.E., assistant professor of Civil Engineering, R. P. I., '28. EE. EUGENE ROLAND WISEMAN, C.E., assistant professor of Civil Engineering, R. P. I., '17. JOHN M. BEATTY, C.E., instructor of Civil Engineering, R. P. I., ,29. CLAYTON O. DOHRENWEND, C.E., instructor in Civil Engineering, R. P. I., '31, EE, Pr.S.E. JOSEPH S. KINNEY, C.E., instructor of Civil Engineering, R. P. I., '3 1. EE. JULIAN W. SHIELDS, C.E., instructor of Civil Engineering, U. of S. C., 'z9. ROLAND HENRY TRATHEN, C.E., instructor of Civil Engineering, R. P. I., ,3o. H. DUFF WILLIAMSON, C.E., Instructor in Civil Engineering, R. P. I .,,, '3o. R.S.E. in - Tg in s f