Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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

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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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Arthur I). Butterfield, M.S., A.M., Assistant Professor of Mathe?natics, Professor Butterfield received the degree of B.S. from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1893, ‘‘the only class that ever was,” he will tell you. From 1893 to 1894 he was in charge of field surveys in the U. S. Lighthouse Establishment. In 1894 he returned to the Institute as Assist¬ ant Professor of Civil Engineering, which position he held four years, re¬ ceiving the degree of IM.S. from his Alma Mater in 1898. lie went to the Universitv of Vermont in 1898 as instructor in mathematics, to be¬ come later Professor of Mathematics and IMechanics at the same institu¬ tion. In 1908 he left the University to return to Tech as Assistant Pro¬ fessor of IMathematics. In the sum¬ mers since 1895 Professor Butterfield has been actively engaged in survey work both for the State of IMassachu- setts and for the U. S. Geological Survev. In recent summers he has been in charge of survevs of the AVater Kesource Branch of the U. S. G. S. Professor Butterfield has received the appointment of Honorary Fellow in Mathematics at Clark University for the year 1909-10. Though fulfilling well the duties of his new position at the Institute, he has shown as active an interest in athletics as he exhibited when he played on the A arsity in ’93.