Stanford University, School of Engineering, Dean's Office, records 1915-1969 1925-1955

Webster, David Locke.

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Stanford University. Dept. of Electrical Engineering

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Stanford University. Reserve Officers Training Corps.

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Stanford University. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch The Stanford Design EXPErience, sponsored by the Design Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a multi-day event with presentations, panels, exhibits, and team projects, involving students, faculty, design managers, and corporate representatives. Marian Adams directed the planning and execution of the inaugural project, held in March 1994. From the guide to the Stanford Design EXPEr...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Stanford University. Dept. of Mining and metallurgy.

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Hoover, Theodore J. (Theodore Jesse), 1871-1955

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Dean, College of Engineering, Stanford University (1925-1936); mining engineer; brother of Herbert Hoover. From the description of Memoranda, being a statement by an engineer, 1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70969425 Theodore Jesse Hoover (1871-1955), brother of President Herbert Hoover, was a career engineer. He was the dean of the College of Engineering at Stanford University from 1925 to 1936. From the description of Hoover, Theodore J. (Theodore Jesse), ...

Pettit, Joseph M. (Joseph Mayo)

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Dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering, 1960-1971. From the description of International Measurement and Instrument Show : photographs, 1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398133 Joseph Mayo Pettit (1916-1986) served as Georgia Tech's eighth President from 1972 until 1986. During World War II, Pettit was engaged in radar countermeasures development in the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University. His assignments included tours in India, China, Franc...

Marx, Guido H., 1871-1949

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Guido H. Marx was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1871. He attended Cornell University, earning the degree of mechanical engineer in 1893. He worked in industry for two years before joining the Stanford faculty in 1895, at the instigation of Albert W. Smith, his former professor at Cornell who, in collaboration with Guido's brother Charles D. Marx, was developing Stanford's new School of Engineering. He became professor of machine ...

Stanford University. Dept. of Civil Engineering

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Stanford University. School of Engineering. Dean's Office.

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Civil and mechanical engineering courses were among the first taught at Stanford University, to be joined in 1893 by electrical and mining engineering. In 1925, the formerly independent engineering departments were organized into the School of Engineering with Theodore Jesse Hoover as Dean. Hoover was succeeded in 1936 by Samuel B. Morris, former director of the Pasadena municipal water system and a respected civil engineering. The School experienced its greatest development during the deanship ...

Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982

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Engineer and educator. Frederick Emmons Terman began his teaching career at Stanford in 1925 and became a full professor in 1937. In 1937, he also became head of the Electrical Engineering Department. As dean of the School of Engineering (1945-1960) and as Provost (1955-1965) and Vice-President (1959-1965) of the University, Terman played a key role in developing University faculty, research facilities and funding. He interrupted his Stanford career during World War II to direct the Harvard Radi...

Marx, Charles

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Crothers, George Edward, 1870-1957

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Judge and member of the Stanford Board of Trustees (1902-1912). He served as attorney to Jane Lathrop Stanford and was part donor of two graduate dormitories at Stanford University. From the description of George E. Crothers papers, 1905-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510691 Biographical/Historical Sketch Judge and member of the Stanford Board of Trustees (1902-1912). He served as attorney to Jane Lathrop Stanfor...

Tresidder, Donald Bertrand, 1894-1948

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A Stanford graduate (A.B. 1919, M.D. 1927), Donald Tresidder was President of the Curry Company of Yosemite Park (1925-1948), a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees and its President (1939-1942), and fourth President of Stanford University (1943-1948). From the description of Donald Bertrand Tresidder, president of Stanford University, records, 1942-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 696107642 Donald B. Tresidder, President of Stanford University from 1943 to 1948, was...

Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949

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After early studies in Germany, Bailey Willis attended Columbia University and was awarded the degree of Mining Engineer in 1878 and of Civil Engineer in 1879. In 1884 he began his career with the United States Geological Survey, working chiefly in the Pacific Northwest. He made geological research trips to China and Argentina, before coming to Stanford University in 1915 to succeed John C. Branner as head of the Department of Geology. Willis was a popular teacher and lecturer and taught at Stan...

Morris, Samuel B. (Samuel Brooks), 1890-1962

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Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1911 with a degree in civil engineering, Samuel Morris returned to Pasadena and took a job as a field engineer with the North Pasadena Land and Water Company. This company was one of the private water companies that were purchased and merged to form the Pasadena Water Department (PWD). He was an Assistant Engineer in the PWD in 1912, and became Chief Engineer in 1913. He remained with the PWD until 1935. While at the PWD, he designed and built the Pine...

Skilling, Hugh Hildreth, 1905-

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Hugh H. Skilling was professor of electrical engineering at Stanford (1928-1929, 1931-1971; emeritus 1971-1990) and served as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1944 to 1967. From the description of Hugh Hildreth Skilling papers, 1954-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703639391 Biographical/Historical Sketch Hugh H. Skilling was professor of electrical engineering at Stanford (1928-1929, 1931-1971; e...

Stanford University. Ryan High Voltage Laboratory.

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Rice, Archie.

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Hotchkiss, Willard.

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Kays, William.

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Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949

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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949), physician and educator, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1929 to 1933. From the description of Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582818 American educator; United States secretary of the interior, 1929-1933; president, Stanford University, 1916-1943. From the description of Ray Lyman Wilbur papers, 1906-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867219 ...