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Phil Moss Ferguson
Pages 164-169

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From page 165...
... His distinguished scholarship and his leadership in developing an internationally recognized structural engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin were fittingly recognized in 1979 when the University of Texas System Board of Regents named the large structural engineering research facility at the university's Balcones Research Center the Phil Moss Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory. In the hundred-year history of the university, only two other buildings had ever been named for living faculty.
From page 166...
... For more than two clecades after he joined the University of Texas faculty in 1928, Professor Ferguson devoted his energies principally to the teaching programs at the then predominantly unclergra(luate institution. He served as chairman of the Civil Engineering Department from 1943 to 1957 and played a leading role in establishing the department's graduate engineering programs.
From page 167...
... His research accomplishments involved many Pelvis, but most noteworthy were the series of original contributions that acivanced comprehensive design recommendations for reinforced concrete structures. Each of his research programs reflected extensive knowIedge of the specific problem as well as the impact of the problem on the total design and behavioral considerations of the member in question.
From page 168...
... No professional service gave Professor Ferguson more satisfaction than his more than forty years as a member of the American Concrete Institute Building Code Committee. He was an extremely influential member of that committee, which formulates the basic standards for design ancI construction of reinforced concrete structures in the United States as well as in many foreign countries.
From page 169...
... His passing brought forth countless students and associates, each with a story of a special encouragement or some special assistance, often financial, offered by Professor Ferguson at trying times in their careers. He was a small, quiet, and gentle giant, who left behind him a totally changed approach to teaching, research, and graduate education in the two corners of his world that were dearest to him—his native Texas and the special world of reinforced concrete.


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