Lorn L. Howard faculty papers 1958-1999

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Lorn L. Howard faculty papers 1958-1999

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Lorn Howard joined Southern Methodist University as professor of electrical engineering in 1959. Over the course of his 29 years of active tenure, Dr. Howard founded the Biomedical Engineering Program in cooperation with the Southwestern Medical School, established the University's first Electron Microscopy Laboratory and the Thin Films Laboratory, served as Chief Marshal to the University for 13 years, and is the University carillonneur. The Lorn Howard faculty papers reflect his life as an academic. Topics of the papers include the engineering program at SMU, electron microscopy, and academic governance. This collection includes correspondence, subject and reading files, and grant proposals.

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Shared governance had a short life at SMU. The concept was popular from initial research forays into its feasibility for the university in the 1960s until the death of the University Assembly in 1975. The University Assembly grew increasingly unpopular with the SMU faculty over time. From the guide to the University Assembly of Southern Methodist University records SMU 2010. 0421., 1968-1975, (Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) ...

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Howard, Lorn L.

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Lorn Lambier Howard was born on November 28, 1917 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and the University of Illinois at Urbana. Dr. Howard served his country as a radioman 2nd class and electronic technician 2nd class in the U.S. Navy from 1936 to 1946. In 1941 he married Etha Johannaber, and they had three children. After receiving his doctorate from Michigan State University in 1959, he joined ...