PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHES HARLEMAN LECTURE
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of The Pennsylvania State University announces the establishment of the annual D. R. F. Harleman Honorary Lecture in Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
Dr. Harleman is a civil engineering graduate of Penn State ('43 BS) who also holds two graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1947, 1950). He received the Penn State College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 1979, and was named Penn State Alumni Fellow in 1987. He is a native of Palmerton, PA and a Ford Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Dr. Harleman is the former longtime head of the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory at MIT, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968-69. In 2001, his former students raised the funds to endow the Donald and Martha Harleman Professorship at MIT. He has a very extensive record of publications, research, and consulting, including a stint as a design engineer with Curtis-Wright Corporation during World War II. He has received six awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers including the Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize (1971, 1973) and the J. C. Stevens Award (1973). Other details of his U.S. and international career can be obtained from his listing in Who's Who in America.
Dr. Harleman will deliver the inaugural lecture on Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 7:30 PM, in the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) Auditorium on the Penn State University Park campus. The auditorium is the second building behind the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel on the west campus. His lecture is titled Saving Venice from the Sea. He will discuss his experiences as a consultant to the Italian Government relative to the ongoing flooding in Venice. At the time of the lecture, the senior undergraduate class at Penn State will be the 60th since Dr. Harleman's graduation.
The yearly lecture is intended to enrich the faculty and students in the hydrosystems division of Penn State's CEE Department by providing contact with outstanding researchers and practitioners in the field from outside the university. The lecture will be a fall semester parallel to the very successful Kavanagh lecture in structures (now in its 10th year) which is held in the spring of each year.
Dr. Joseph R. Reed, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Penn State and a life member of ASCE, provided the initial grant to establish this honorary lecture. Additional tax deductible contributions by individuals or organizations should be clearly marked for the Harleman Endowment and made payable to Penn State University. Contributors will be acknowledged at each lecture. Contributions should be sent to:
Harleman Endowment
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
212 Sackett Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-8391
