Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Faculty Edmund A. Engler, Ph.D., LL.D., President. John E. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Higher Mathematics, Emeritus. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, S.D., Professor of Chemistry. Levi L. Conant, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics. George H. Haynes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Political Science. Walter L. Jennings, Ph.D., Professor of Organic Chemistry. Zelotes Wood Coombs, A.M., Professor of English, French, and German. Harold B. Smith, M.E., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Arthur Willard French, C.E., Professor of Civil Engineering. A. Wilmer Duff, D.Sc., Professor of Physics. William W. Bird, S.B., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of Washburn Shops. Alton L. Smith, M.S., Professor of Drawing and Machine Design. Charles M. Allen, M.S., Professor of Hydraulic Engineering. Joseph 0. Phelon, M.M.E., Professor of Electrical Engineering. Albert S. Richey, E.E., Professor of Electric Pailway Engineering. Carleton A. Read, S.B., Professor of Steam Engineering. Edward L. Hancock, M.S., Professor of Applied ' Mechanics. Arthur W. Ewell, Pii.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. Howard Chapin Ives, C.E., Assistant Professor of Railroad Engineer¬ ing. George R. Olshausen, M.E., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering. Arthur D. Butterfield, M.S., A.M., Assistant Professor of Mathe¬ matics. David L. Gallup, M.E., Assistant Professor of Gas Engineering. Frederic Bonnet, Jr., Pii.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Robert C. Sweetser, S.B., Assistant Professor of Analytical Chem¬ istry. 13

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Edmund Arthur Engler, Ph.D., LL. D. President Edmund Arthur Engler was born in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 23, 1856. He graduated from Washington University in that city in 1876, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1877, that of Master of Arts in 1879, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1892. In 1901 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Doctor Engler served as Professor of Mathematics at Washington University for twenty-seven years, and for the last two years as Dean of the Engineering School connected with that institution. He has amplified his scholarly career by studies in Europe. The wide scope of President Engler’s work in science is shown best by the positions he has served on various committees, and his member¬ ship in learned societies. Some of his positions have been: President of the Academy of Science of St. Louis (1898 to 1901) ; Member of Wash¬ ington University Eclipse Expedition to Norman, Cal.; Secretar}- of the Round Table of St. Louis; Chairman of the Jury in the Department of Manufactures at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and Chairman of the International Jury on Instruments of Precision, at the Louisiana Purchase Expositiou. He is a member of the National Geographical So¬ ciety, of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, of the Amer¬ ican Mathematical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Doctor Engler has been President of the Worcester Polytechnic In¬ stitute since 1901. and his nine years have been years of progress. 15