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Charles Ezra Greene

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Nationality
  
American

Employer
  
University of Michigan

Spouse
  
Florence Emerson

Role
  
Engineer

Name
  
Charles Greene



Born
  
February 12, 1842 (
1842-02-12
)
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Occupation
  
Professor of Civil Engineering, 1872-1903 Dean, Univ. of Michigan School of Engineering, 1895-1903

Children
  
Albert Emerson, Florence Wentworth

Parent(s)
  
Rev. James Diman Greene, Sarah Adeline (Durell) Greene

Died
  
1903, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Books
  
Trusses and Arches Analyzed and Discussed by Graphical Methods

Education
  
Harvard College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Charles Ezra Greene (1842–1903) was an American civil engineer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1863, served as quartermaster during the last two years of the Civil War, and was United States assistant engineer from 1870 to 1872, when, for part of a year, he was city engineer of Bangor, Maine.

In the same year he became connected with the engineering department of the University of Michigan. In 1895, he became the first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, a position he held until his death.

He was an associate editor of the Engineering News from 1876 - 1877. his publications include:

  • Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses (1876)
  • Trusses and Arches: Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders (three volumes, 1876–79; third edition, 1903)
  • Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering (1891)
  • Structural Mechanics (1897; second edition, 1905)
  • References

    Charles Ezra Greene Wikipedia