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Frederick C. Lindvall
Pages 213-216

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... LINDVALL 1903-1989 BY RUBEN F . METTLER FRED LINDVALL was a man of many dimensions, including his long and dedicated association with Caltech, his national prominence in engineering education and the engineering profession, his wide range of engineering research interest, his many cultural and civic interests, and his love for family and friends.
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... He made it seem very natural for me as an electrical engineer to do a thesis in aeronautics and have an Examination Committee representing a wide range of disciplines, especially in physics and mathematics. Although Fred emphasized quantitative analysis, he made it clear that in practice, engineering (and especially engineering design)
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... The key task was to take the problems all the way to final design solutions, supported by quantitative analysis. What made this so exciting was that as graduate students we had just been introduced in our candidacy courses to the "magic" of Laplace transforms, the incredible scope and beauty of Maxwell's equations, the power of vector analysis, and the mysteries and uncertainties of fluid mechanics.
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