Donald R. F. Harleman, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States |
Area:
HydraulicsWebsite:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11912/chapter/27Google:
"Donald Harleman"Bio:
(1922 - 2005)
https://www.nae.edu/187874/DONALD-RF-HARLEMAN-19222005
Born on December 5, 1922, in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, Don
received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1943. He then worked as a design engineer
for the Curtis-Wright Corporation in Ohio during the last years of
World War II. In October 1945, he arrived at MIT, a 22-year-old
graduate student in the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering with an interest in fluid flow. On that same October day,
Dr. Arthur T. Ippen, a Caltech Ph.D. student of the renowned fluid
dynamicist Theodore von Kármán, also arrived in Cambridge to
take up a new appointment as Professor-in-Charge of the department’s Hydrodynamics and Hydraulic Engineering program. Thus
began a collaboration and friendship that continued until Ippen’s
death in 1973
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Arthur T. Ippen | grad student | 1950 | MIT | |
| (Studies on the Validity of the Hydraulic Analogy to Supersonic Flow) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| John A. Hoopes | grad student | 1965 | MIT (E-Tree) |
| Wayne C Huber | grad student | 1968 | MIT (E-Tree) |
| Gerhard H. Jirka | grad student | 1973 | MIT |
| Joseph Hun-wei Lee | grad student | 1974 | MIT |
| Eric Adams | grad student | 1975 | MIT (Oceanography Tree) |
| Joseph F. Atkinson | grad student | 1984 | MIT (E-Tree) |