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120 Harvey Nathaniel Davis

Page history last edited by Kelly McCarthy 9 years, 8 months ago

June 6, 1881-December 3, 1952


 



 

Personal Data

Born:               June 6, 1881 Rhode Island

Died:               December 3, 1952

Married:          Suzanne Courtonne Haskell, June 28, 1911 Winnetka, Cook Co., IL

                       two daughters: Suzanne and Louisa

Married:         Alice Marian Rohde

                       son: Nathaniel Davis (1925-2011)

Married:         Helen Clarkson Miller

 

 

Education

PhD                Physics, Harvard University, 1906

 

Employment

1901-            Taught mathematics at Brown University

?                    Taught Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard

1928-            President, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

 

Membership-Professional Organizations

1929                Director, Hoboken Chamber of Commerce

1929                Manager, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1931                Vice President, Hoboken Chamber of Commerce

1931                Vice President, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1938                President,  the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1947-48          President, American Association for Adult Education (AAAE)

 

Publications

 

 

Professional Interest Areas

  • Engineering
  • Defense Industries

 

Major Contributions to Adult Education

  • Secured a grant that paid faculty to give non-credit and tuition-free courses to 650 adult students working in defense industries
  • Established a Defense Industries Training School to give intensive three-month courses to train mechanical personnel at the sub-professional level
  • Increased Stevens’ reputation as an engineering college which more than doubled undergraduate enrollment from 600 to 1400
  • Increased veteran enrollment
  • Facilitated the work of A. M. Mayer with the New York Metropolitan Opera to conduct and apply research in psycho-acoustics supported by the Rockefeller Foundation

        

Additional Resources

 

Articles

 

Photo Gallery

 

Video/Audio

 

Presentations

 

Books

 

Interesting Facts

  • Third President of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
  • Harvey N. Davis Hall named after him at Stevens Institute
  • Expanded courses in Civil Engineering program
  • Incorporated more practical projects in Mechanical Engineering program
  • Expanded Economics and Humanities Departments
  • Expanded the opportunity for students to reside on campus, increasing campus residence from 30 to 300
  • Created graduate programs at Stevens

 

 


References

Harvey N. Davis. (n.d.). In Wikipedia.  Retrieved June 20, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_N._Davis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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