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Inge Martin Lyse
Inge Martin Lyse
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I called on the construction division of the Southern California Edison Company for a job. After three or four months I was informed that they had an opening for me as a chairman at the Florence Lake Dam construction.
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And soon after the budget meeting of the Board of Trustees I received my appointment to the Lehigh University faculty from August 1931. LYse recognized the importance of personal relationships Again in his own words Aim r-A~ Rae The fact that Lehigh University was located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where the Bethlehem Steel Company has its headquarters, and furthermore that the Fritz Engineering Laboratory was a gift to the university by one of the officials of the company, made it natural that the research work should include structural steel as well as concrete.
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Croes Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1937 · honorary member of the American Concrete Institute, 1962 · Award of Outstanding Professional Achievement of the Norwegian Society of Professional Engineers, 1965 · Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, 1966 · honorary member of RILEM (International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories of Materials)
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Bruce Johnston (who was Lyse's student and who took over from him at Fritz Lab) once wrote: "In addition to his scientific skill, Professor Lyse holds a rare ability to spot the practical problems and to initiate and organize professional work to solve these problems...." Deming Lewis, in presenting Lyse to the Lehigh faculty for the honorary doctorate of engineering, described his influential leadership in the following way: Because of his work in establishing and maintaining international cooperation among engineers, it can be said that there is no nation in the world which has not benefitted from Professor Lyse's knowledge.
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At the Fritz Laboratory we all became one great family the research staff, and graduate students and the laboratory staff. And after leaving Lehigh in 1938, it was a great pleasure to learn that my two most promising graduates, Bruce Johnston at Columbia University and Hank Godfrey at Roebling Steel Wire Company, were appointed to take over after me.
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How could then the chief engineer at Big Creek select me as the only one of his big engineering staff for the research group at the Stevenson Creek Dam, and why did Slater select me as the only foreigner on his staff to become more or less his personal assistant? That Slater and Westergaard recommended me to McMillan at the PEA may not be so strange, but why did McMillan create for me the position as his personal assistant?
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