Memorial Tributes Volume 18 (2014) / Chapter Skim
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"My life has been a series of fortunate events and this was the first," he wrote in a history of the Biological Systems Engineering Department (formerly the Agricultural Engineering Department) at the University of Nebraska.
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The key thing I learned from Dr. Farrall was not to be hesitant in trying out new ideas." "Fortunate event number four was being hired by Professor Wallace Giles…in 1954, directly as a research associate professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University [NCSU]
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Bill led the University of Nebraska's Agricultural Engineering Department in becoming very involved in sponsored research. He had written successful competitive grant proposals at NCSU and wrote successful research proposals at the University of Nebraska and then teamed with able faculty members to conduct the research.
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Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum. Bill and others felt strongly that the original Nebraska Tractor Testing Laboratory building (established as part of the Agricultural Engineering Department by the state legislature in 1919 and built in 1920)
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The facility, built under Bill's direction in 1979, houses the current Nebraska Tractor Testing Laboratory, teaching and research laboratories, and a precision machine shop for fabricating research equipment. Bill called this "the most significant professional recognition of my career" and said "the facility has special meaning to me as I had laid out the design to specifically house the major noisegenerating functions of the department.… The building has proven highly functional -- good engineering design if I say so myself," he wrote.
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Bill loved to fly, and was soloing soon after high school. His flying allowed him to visit the western portions of Nebraska to meet with employees in Scottsbluff and North Platte, and to travel extensively around the US while he was ASAE president.
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, and ten grandchildren. Many of us, both family and work associates, who have known Bill Splinter consider that one of our most "fortunate events."
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