Turner, Walter W.

Walter Weeks Turner was born in Augusta, Maine in 1922. He graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. He was a professor at the University of Maine at Orono in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1947 until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1990. His major teaching fields were in wire communications, feedback control systems, electrical machinery, and instrumentation. In 1959 and 1960 he was a member of the Special Committee of Maine Engineers appointed to study the engineering and economic aspects of the proposed Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project. In 1985 and 1986 he served on a committee to plan an undergraduate program in electrical engineering at the University of Southern Maine. He died on November 18, 2004.