CLASS OF 1953 WHO'S WHO & WHERE - The City College Fund

I was employed as an engineer at the Port of New York Authority, where I designed an extensionto a major runway at Newark Airport to accommodate jet aircraft, and later, a structural engineerwith the Rocketdyne Corp., CA, where I was cited for my analysis of engine components on therocket used in the Mercury program. I was a NASA Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Lab, and again atthe NASA-Ames Research Center, where my work on the “finite volume method” for solving theequations of shock wave flow was widely recognized. I was an industrial consultant for manyyears, working in turbulent jet flow for the Grumman Aerospace Corp. and developing custom scientificsoftware for the Union Carbide Corporation. I authored, or co-authored many important papersin the areas of viscous shock waves and computational fluid dynamics with R. MacCormack,turbulent jet flow with A. Rubell, and fractals in metal fracture with B. Mandelbrot. I was, for manyyears, a member of the engineering faculty of the City College of New York, and the mathematicsfaculty of Bronx CC/CUNY, where I introduced the pre-computer science option. I retired as ProfessorEmeritus in 1995.Throughout my professional life, I remained active in track and field, coaching at CCNY, andfounding and coaching the Bruce TC of NY. I was president of the Metropolitan Track CoachesAssociation, secretary of the Collegiate Track Conference, and member of the Board of Managersof the Metropolitan AAU. I served as meet director of the CTC Championships, vice-president ofthe CCNY Alumni Varsity Association, and elected to the CCNY Athletic Hall of Fame. I have attendedsix Olympic Games, and many World Championships of Track and Field. I enjoy traveling,painting, reading, playing the piano, and, most important of all, spending time with my wife, myson and daughter, and my five grandchildren.