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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Alexander Ziwet |
1888 - 1925 |
Professor of Engineering Mathematics Professor of Mathematics |
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William Henry Wait |
1895 - 1925 | Professor of Engineering Modern Languages |
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Shirley Wheeler Smith |
1899 - 1945 |
Instructor in Engineering English Vice President & Secretary in Charge of Business & Finance Alumni Secretary |
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James Pyper Bird |
1903 - 1915 | Instructor in Engineering French and Spanish |
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Peter Field |
1903 - 1946 |
Professor of Engineering Mathematics Professor of Mathematics |
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Theodore R. Running |
1903 - 1936 | Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Clyde E. Love |
1905 - 1947 | Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Louis Allen Hopkins |
1906 - 1959 | Associate Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Otto Charles Marckwardt |
1906 - 1920 | Assistant Professor of Engineering English |
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Vincent Collins Poor |
1907 - 1946 | Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Theophil Henry Hildebrandt |
1909 - 1958 |
Professor, Engineering Mathematics 1909-1928 Professor, LSA Mathematics 1928-1957 Chair, LSA Mathematics 1934-1957 |
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Arthur D. DeFoe |
1912 - 1915 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Louis Joseph Rouse |
1913 - 1955 | Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
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Jesse Early Thornton |
1914 - 1956 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Albert A. Bennett |
1915 - 1917 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Edward Murray Grinnell |
1915 - 1917 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Francis L. Schneider |
1916 - 1929 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Frederick William Peterson |
1917 - 1953 | Assistant Professor of Engineering Modern Languages |
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Ralph Moore Carson |
1917 - 1919 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Lloyd Loring Click |
1917 - 1919 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Charles Albert Langworthy |
1917 - 1925 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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William H. Egly |
1919 - 1960 | Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Arthur C. Klocksie |
1919 - 1925 | Assistant Professor of Engineering English |
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Ivan Henry Walton |
1919 - 1963 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Christian N. Wenger |
1919 - 1945 | Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Donat Konstantin Kazarinoff |
1919 - 1957 |
Professor of Engineering Mathematics Professor of Mathematics |
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Carl Enoch William Leonard Dahlstrom |
1920 - 1945 | Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Keena Kemp |
1920 - 1925 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Claire Frost Lyman |
1920 - 1922 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Marten Ten Hoor |
1920 - 1922 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Anthony Joseph Jobin |
1920 - 1957 | Associate Professor of French |
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Howard D. Roelofs |
1921 - 1923 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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Robert D. Brackett |
1922 - 1956 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Carl G. Brandt |
1924 - 1968 |
Professor of Engineering English Chair of Department of Engineering English |
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James Alexander Shohat |
1924 - 1929 | Assistant Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Ben Dushnick |
1925 - 1967 | Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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Nevin Cotton Fisk |
1925 | Instructor in Engineering Mathematics |
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Ben Dushnik |
1925 - 1967 |
Professor of Mathematics Professor of Engineering Mathematics |
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John Johnson Corliss |
1928 | Instrutor in Engineering Mathematics |
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Carl E. Burklund |
1929 - 1963 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Leo Kirschbaum |
1930 - 1937 | Instructor in Engineering English |
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William Harrison Mack |
1934 - 1957 | Assistant Professor of Engineering English |
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Wilfred Sensemann |
1936 - 1965 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Webster Earl Britton |
1938 - 1976 | Professor of Engineering English |
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George Middleton McEwen |
1940 - 1975 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Joshua McClennen |
1940 - 1944 1947 - 1967 |
Instructor in Engineering English |
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Robert Percy Weeks |
1945 - 1986 | Professor of Engineering Humanities |
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Stephen Sadler Stanton |
1946 - 1984 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Thomas Mitchell Sawyer Jr |
1947 - 1987 |
Professor of Engineering Humanities Returned to Active Status 1988-1999 |
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Richard J Ross |
1952 - 1984 | Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Ralph A. Loomis |
1953 - 1993 | Professor of English |
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Donald A. Ringe |
1953 - 1965 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Peter R. Klaver |
1954 - 1996 | Associate Professor of Technical Communication |
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Ed ward M Shafter Jr |
1954 - 1988 | Professor of Engineering Humanities |
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Chester F. Chapin |
1957 - 1973 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Roger M. Jones |
1957 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Engineering English |
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Richard E. Young |
1957 - 1978 |
Professor of Engineering English Chair of Department of Engineering English |
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Rudolf B. Schmerl |
1957 - 1988 | Associate Professor of Technical Communications |
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Robert A Martin |
1960 - 1986 | Professor of Engineering English |
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Edmund Dan dridge |
1963 | Assistant Professor of Engineering English |
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David Y. Hughes |
1964 - 1994 | Professor of Humanities |
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Gorman Beauchamp |
1970 - 2007 |
Adjunct Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Henryk D. Skolimowski |
1970 - 1993 | Professor of Humanities |