Eugene L. Grant
| Eugene L. Grant | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 15, 1897 |
| Died | July 9, 1996 |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | civil engineering |
| Known for | Engineering Economy (First published in 1930) |
Eugene Lodewick Grant (February 15, 1897 - July 9, 1996), was a Civil Engineering educator his entire career. He graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. , starting in 1920 at Montana State University and then in 1930 at the School of Engineering, Stanford University where is taught until 1962. He is known for his works, namely, Engineering Economy (1930). Grant was the intellectual heir of work performed by John Charles Lounsbury Fish who published Engineering Economics: First Principles in 1923, providing the critical bridge between Grant and the pioneering effort of Arthur M. Wellington in his engineering economics work of the 1870s. Grant was awarded many academic and professional honors such as an honorary doctorate in civil engineering at Montana State University; Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Society for Quality(ASQ) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1987[1]. He was part of the effort to found the American Society for Quality which awarded Grant its top award, the Shewart medal in 1952. In 1967, ASQ created the E.L. Grant Award which is granted annually to the individual who has been deemed to have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the areas of educational programs in quality. Joseph Juran said that Grant was a “quiet doer who didn’t receive enough credit for what he did” and did much to advance the field of quality to what it was in the middle of the 20th century. [2]
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Early life and career
Eugene Lodewick Grant was born on February 15, 1897 to Bertrand Eugene and Eva May (Lodewick). In 1923, he married Mildred Brooks Livingston and they had one child, Nancy Livingston.[3] He attended University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1917 with a BS in civil engineering. Grant saw wartime service in the United States Navy and then later served in the Geological Survey. [4] Grant then joined the civil engineering faculty at the University of Montana (Bozeman) in 1920. [4] He earned a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University in 1928. [4]
Stanford University civil engineering department
Grant jonied the department in 1930 where he started on his landmark textbook on engineering economy. [4] He became chair of the civil engineering department in 1947 and headed that from 1947 to 1956 while at the same time heading the Committee on Industrial Engineering which later became an independent engineering program at Stanford. [4]
Awards
- Thomas Fitch prize ASCE, (1944).[3]
- ASQC Shewhart Medal (1952)
- The AIIE Founders Award (1965)
- Honorary Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Montana (1973)
- The IIE Engineering Economy Division’s Wellington Award (1979)
- Membership in the National Academy of Engineering (1987).
Death
Grant died on July 9, 1996 and is interred at Sunset Hills Cemetery Memorials in Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA. [5]
Partial bibliography
- The economic utilization of the waters of the Upper Missouri river (1928)
- Principles of Engineering Economy (1930)
- Statistical Quality Control (1946)
- Fundamentals of Depreciation (1949)
- The problem of the isolated lot with Gerald J. Lieberman. (1955)
- Basic Accounting and Cost Accounting (1956)
See also
References
- ↑ Science, New Series, Vol. 235, No. 4796 (Mar. 27, 1987), p. 1569
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Grant, Eugene Lodewick." Marquis Who Was Who in America 1985-present, edited by Marquis Who's Who, Marquis Who's Who LLC, 26th edition, 2016. Credo Reference, https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/marquiswww/grant_eugene_lodewick/0?institutionId=577. Accessed 17 Feb 2018.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eugene L Grant, Accessed at https://web.stanford.edu/group/msande-history/cgi-bin/mw/index.php/Eugene_L._Grant. 2014. Accessed on February 17, 2018
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