Milo Ketchum Archive

Manuscripts by Milo Ketchum (1910-1999)

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Milo's Web Site (Final version as he left it in 1999)
"A Careful Compendium of Curious Concrete Construction: Concrete Shells"

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE Editorials
Written 1982 - 1984

Milo was Editor of the journal Structural Engineering Practice - Analysis, Design, Management (published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.) in the early 1980s. These are Editorials he wrote that were published in the first eight issues.


Structural Engineering Practice - A New Journal
Structural Engineering Education
Partnerships
Price Competition for Engineering Services
Creativity in Structural Engineering
Writing for Structural Engineers
Training Recent Graduates
Problems of Computer Usage
What Have Our Complicated Specifications Accomplished?

VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES

The Status of Structural Engineering in the United States of America
The Institution of Structural Engineers (London)
Fiftieth Anniversary Conference, October 1958

Consulting Engineer Magazine Cover Article
February 1958, Volume X, Number II
An article about (not by) Milo Ketchum, with many quotations, etc.

(More to Come)


CAREER MEMOIRS
Written circa 1990


1. Education and Experience (1910 - 1945)
2. Practice, Rigid Frames
3. Promotion - Care and Feeding of Architects
4. Folded Plates
5. Barrel Shells
6. Hyperbolic Paraboloids and Domes
7. Connecticut-Teaching
7B. Analysis of Hyperbolic Paraboloids
8. Reflections

LIFE STORIES
Written 1990 - 1999


Chapter One (Origins, Parents, Siblings)
Boulder, Colorado (1915)
Moving by Train (1920)
New Haven, Connecticut (1922)
Tending the Furnace (1924)
Pillars of Hercules (1979)

VITAE

1910   Born March 8 - Denver, Colorado
1910 - 1917Boulder, Colorado
1917 - 1919Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1919 - 1934Urbana, Illinois
1931B.S. University of Illinois
1932M.S. University of Illinois
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Denver)
Portland Cement Association (Chicago)
Case Institute (Cleveland)
1944Married Gretchen Allenbach
Floyd G. Brown Associates (Cleveland)
1945Founded Milo S. Ketchum, Consulting Engineer (Denver)
1945 - 1989Ketchum & Konkel; Ketchum, Konkel, & Hasting; Ketchum, Konkel, Ryan, & Fleming; Ketchum, Konkel, Ryan, & Hastings; Ketchum, Konkel, Barrett, Nickel, & Austin; KKBNA
1962 - 1966Milo S. Ketchum & Partners (Connecticut)
1966Pennsylvania State University - Visiting Professor
1967 - 1978University of Connecticut - Professor
1979University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award
1976D. Sc. (hc) University of Colorado
1982National Academy of Engineering
1982 - 1984Editor, Stuctural Engineering Practice
1986Honorary Membership, American Concrete Institute
1989 - 1999Consulting Engineer, Denver
1999Died December 8 - Denver, Colorado

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