Charles Derleth

Biography

Charles Derleth, Jr. (1874-1956) received his B.S. degree at the City College of New York in 1894 and his degree in Civil Engineering at Columbia University in 1896. After serving as an instructor at Columbia and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado, he became Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1903. In 1907 he became Dean of the College of Civil Engineering. He held this position until 1942.

Derleth was the chief engineer for the Carquinez Bridge, and consulting engineer for both the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, as well as for the Posey Tube in Alameda, the Campanile on the Berkeley campus, and the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. Derleth was also the Director of the Testing Laboratory in the Civil Engineering Department at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast.