Starr, Eugene Carl, 1901-

Eugene Starr was born in 1901 in Falls City, Oregon. After graduating from Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) with a B.S. in engineering in 1923, he received his E.E. in 1938. He taught electrical engineering at Oregon State from 1927 until 1954. In 1954 he left the university to become chief engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in Portland, Oregon. From 1962 until his death, Starr served as a full-time senior consultant to all BPA administrators and chief engineers. He led the technical development of one of the world's outstanding power transmission organizations, the BPA, during the most important years of its techological development. He was a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 1965 he received the U.S. Department of the Interior's Distinguished Service Award with Gold Medal. He was named Engineer of the Year by the Professional Engineers of Oregon and was the recipient of IEEE's William M. Harbirshaw award in 1968 and the Lamme Medal in 1980. Starr published more than forty professional and technical articles in the field of high voltage dielectric and environmental phenomena, conventional and nuclear power generation and power system reliability. He died on February 5, 1988.

From the description of Eugene Starr papers, 1925-1980. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 50626388

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