Charles Ezra Greene
Engineer, Author
1842 – 1903
Who was Charles Ezra Greene?
Charles Ezra Greene was an American civil engineer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1863, served as quartermaster during the last two years of the Civil War, and was United States assistant engineer from 1870 to 1872, when, for part of a year, he was city engineer of Bangor, Maine.
In the same year he became connected with the engineering department of the University of Michigan. In 1895, he became the first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, a position he held until his death.
He was an associate editor of the Engineering News from 1876 - 1877. his publications include:
Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses
Trusses and Arches: Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders
Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering
Structural Mechanics
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1842
Cambridge - Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harvard College
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- 1903
Ann Arbor
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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