N. Waldo Harrison Professor

The N. Waldo Harrison Professorship was established in 1987 by Virginia Tech College of Engineering alumnus Nathaniel Waldo Harrison. Harrison graduated from Virginia Tech. formerly known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), in 1934, the end of the depression, with a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was then awarded a Teaching Fellowship in the VPI Applied Mechanics Department from where obtained a master's degrees in 1935.[1] The professorship honors distinguished faculty scholars in the successors to the Department of Applied Mechanics, currently the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.[2]

N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Virginia Tech
PrecursorIshwar K. Puri, Dean T. Mook, Michael W. Hyer
Formation1987
Named forN. Waldo Harrison
Websitewww.esm.vt.edu

Harrison served as a member of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Frankfurt, Germany, during World War II, and later created the professorship to acknowledge the extraordinary education he received at Virginia Tech.[3]

N. Waldo Harrison Professors of Engineering Science and Mechanics
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References
  1. N. Waldo Harrison on why he endowed a professorship
  2. History of the Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
  3. Virginia Tech News, April 6, 2011, Ishwar Puri named N. Waldo Harrison Professor
  4. Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Dean Mook
  5. September 1, 2005, Dr. Michael Hyer Appointed as N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
  6. April 6, 2011, Virginia Tech College of Engineering faculty appointment announcement
  7. April 6, 2011, Ishwar Puri named N. Waldo Harrison Professor
  8. Ishwar K. Puri's Web Site
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