Daniel W. Mead
Daniel Webster Mead(March 6, 1862 – October 13, 1948) was an American engineering consultant and professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.He is remembered for designinghydroelectricplants and writing early textbooks on hydraulic engineering and engineering ethics.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Mead was born inFulton, Oswego County, New Yorkin 1862 and grew up inRockford, Illinois.He established the consulting firm Mead and Seastone inChicagoin 1900. In 1904, Mead was made head of the Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.He moved his consulting practice toMadison, Wisconsin,where it grew into the engineering firm Mead & Hunt.[1][2]
Mead contributed to the design of a number of hydraulic engineering projects. He was the principal designer of theKilbourn Dam(1909) andPrairie du Sac Dam(1914), two hydroelectric plants on theWisconsin River.[3]In the 1910s he served as a consultant for flood control projects including theHuai Riverconservancy inJiangsuandAnhui,China,and theMiami Conservancy DistrictinOhio.PresidentCalvin Coolidgeappointed Mead to the Colorado River Board commission to study theHoover Damproject in 1928.[1]
In 1921, Mead became the first president of theTechnical Club of Madison.He later became president of theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) in 1936,[4]which recognizes him in the annual Daniel W. Mead essay contest. Mead's later career included a strong focus on engineering ethics, including writing a manual of professional ethics for ASCE in 1941.[5]
Publications
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- Contracts, Specifications, and Engineering Relations.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1916.
- Hydrology: The Fundamental Basis of Hydraulic Engineering.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1919.
- "The Engineer and His Code,"Civil Engineering6, no. 8 (1936): pp. 499–501.
- Standards of professional relations and conduct.New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1941.
References
[edit]- ^abcAnderson, Mary P. (2006)."Daniel W. Mead, Pioneer Educator, Ethicist, and Consultant".Groundwater.44(2): 319–322.doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00178.x.ISSN1745-6584.PMID16556214.S2CID37536697.Retrieved2022-07-29.
- ^"Our History".Mead & Hunt.Retrieved29 July2022.
- ^Bernstein, Rick (2002-08-27)."Wisconsin Stories: The Power of Water".Wisconsin Stories.Wisconsin Public Television. Archived fromthe originalon 13 December 2005.
- ^"D.W. MEAD ELECTED BY CIVIL ENGINEERS; Former Professor at Wisconsin to Take Office at Convention of Society Here Today".The New York Times.January 15, 1936. p. 13.Retrieved2008-08-14.
- ^Hoke, Tara (July 2012)."A Question of Ethics: Our Profession's Debt to Daniel W. Mead".Civil Engineering Magazine.82(7): 36–37.doi:10.1061/ciegag.0000783.Retrieved29 July2022.
- "ENGINEERS ASSAIL PUBLIC WORKS AIMS; Henry E. Riggs, D. W. Mead Tell Society Federal Projects Are Unsound Economically".The New York Times.October 8, 1937. p. 14.Retrieved2008-08-14.
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