Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Howard C. Ives, C.E., Assistant Professor of Pailroad Engineering. Professor Ives was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1898. During the follow¬ ing year he took a post-graduate course in the same school and re¬ ceived the degree of C.E. After practicing his profession for a year he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1900 as instructor in civil engineering. In 1903 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He left there in 1906 and returned to the Institute as Assistant Pro¬ fessor of Railroad Engineering. Professor Ives has made several contributions to engineering litera¬ ture. 24

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Carleton A. Read, S.B., Professor of Steam Pnguieeritig. Professor Read graduated from the IMassacliiisetts Institute of Tech¬ nology with the Class of 1891, and immediately returned as instructor in mechanical engineering, which posi¬ tion he held until 1899. lie was then appointed to the chair of Professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Hampshire State College at Durham, N. II. Upon the retirement of Pro¬ fessor Rockwood at the end of last year, Professor Read was appointed Professor of Steam Engineering at the Institute. Outside of his work at Tech, he has charge of the instruc¬ tion in steam engineering at the Franklin Union in Boston. Much of Professor Read’s time has been spent in laying out heating and ventilating systems and in making tests of pow¬ er-plants. He is a member of the American Society of IMechanical En- « gineers. Arthur W. Ewell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. Doctor Ewell is a graduate of Yale College and has also taken ex¬ tensive graduate work at Johns Hop¬ kins University. In 1901 he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute t. as instructor in physics, and has more recently lieen appointed Assistant Professor of Phvsics. Besides his « training in this country, he has also spent some time abroad studying under eminent German physicists. He has perfected an electrical method for ])i oducing ozmie, which has l)een adopted in a number of industries. Doctor Ewell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and % Sciences, and a member of the Amer¬ ican Physical Societ ' . • t

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George R. Olshausen, M.E., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theoretical Plectrical Pngineering. Professor Olshaiiseii was graduated from a five-year course in me¬ chanical enj’fineerin at Washington University where he received his i r.E. degree in 1890. During the year 1890-91 he was employed as assistant engineer for the Union Depot R. R. Co., St. Louis, becoming their chief engineer in 1891. The year 1894-95 he spent as chemical manufacturer with C. 0. Knoblauch, and as instructor in theoretical and practical astronomy at AVashington University. He again entered the employ of the Union Depot R. R. Co., in 1895, as chief engineer. In 1896 he was employed with the AVilliam A¥har- ton, Jr., Co., Philadelphia. Professor Olshausen spent the next five years in advanced work in mathematics and physics at the University of Berlin, from which he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1901. Since then he has. been: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Armour Institute of Technology (1901-02) ; Professor of Physics, Armour Institute (1902) ; Engineer with Alessrs. Lichter Jens on power station work, Omaha, Neb. (1902-3), and Department of Physics, Cornell Universit} (1903-07). Pro¬ fessor Olshausen received his appointment as Assistant Professor of The¬ oretical Electrical Engineering at W. P. I. in 1907. 25