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Howard Davis Eberhart
Pages 54-59

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... After he retired from Berkeley in 1974, he spent three years in Saudi Arabia establishing the Civil Engineering Department at King Abdul Aziz University of {idda. During the period from 1980 to 1991, he was invited to teach courses in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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... At the memorial service, a plaque dedicated to him stated, "In honor of the memory of a great teacher, who had a major impact on the lives of many Berkeley students, who will always remember him.' Important as his contributions were in teaching and university service, outside the university he was known primarily as one of the leaders in research and development of artificial limbs. Because of his expertise in analytical and experimental studies on many types of structures, he participated in research during World War II aimed at improving concrete runways to withstand the stresses due to heavy bombers.
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... In 1957 the Prosthetic Devices Research Project became the Biomechanics Laboratory and was moved to the Medical School in San Francisco. In 1967 it returned to Berkeley, and finally ceased to exist in 1974 when the Veterans Administration was not able to support it any longer.
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... Professor Eberhart is survived by his wife, Frances; a sister, Mary Ellen Henderson of Eugene, Oregon; a son, Howard Davis Eberhart II of Concord, California; and two grandsons.
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