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Morrough Parker O'Brien
Pages 265-272

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... FOLSOM AND ROBERT L WIEGEL M ORROUGH PARKER O BRIEN, dean emeritus of the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, an engineering educator of renown, founder of modern coastal engineering, and consultant on a wide variety of vital engineering projects, died July IS, 198S, at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at age eighty-five.
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From page 266...
... After two years of graduate work at Purdue University, he was the John R Freeman Scholar of the American Society of Civil Engineers for study of fluid mechanic subjects in Germany and Sweden.
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From page 267...
... While in Berkeley, Mike completed, in a consulting ca~ e ~ paclty, many engineering assignments in a W1C he range or applications, such as pump selection and performance testing, fluic! meters stanciarcis, propulsion systems for amphibious tanks (FMC Corporation)
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From page 268...
... Army Board on Sand Movement and Beach Erosion in 1929, and initiated this board's research on coastal engineering by personally conducting field studies on the New Jersey and Long Island shores. In 1930 he made field studies along the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California and wrote a detailed seven-volume report on the results of his observations.
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From page 269...
... through extensive laboratory tests and by others at the University through field tests, has been used in the analysis of wave loading of nearly every coastal and offshore structure using piles, columns, and/or tubular bracings. Mike and Professor Joe W
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From page 270...
... Mike was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Engineering Implications of Changes in Relative Mean Sea Level (198~1987~; the Army Scientific Advisory Pane} from 1954 to 1965, serving as its chairman from 1961 to 1965; the Defense Science Board from 1961 to 1965; and the Board of the National Science Foundation (a presidential appointment) from 1958 to 1960.
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