The Following is downloaded from Ohio State University's website for the memory of a great teacher and author in the area of measurement and control,Prof.Ernest O. Doebelin! Ernest O.Doebelin,who taught mechanical engineering from 1954 to 2010,died November 10,2010.He received his graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State(MS'54 and PhD'58).Professor Doebelin originated the OSU curriculum in system dynamics,measurement and control, and developed eight courses in this area,from sophomore to PhD level.He also authored 12 textbooks for use in these courses.While a faculty member at Ohio State he received several awards,including the Ohio State Alumni award for teaching in 1966,American Society for Engineering Education Award for Excellence in Laboratory Teaching in 1987,McQuigg Award of the OSU College of Engineering in 1977, Pi Tau Sigma Award in 1990,and a special recognition from the OSU Mechanical Engineering Department Industrial Advisory Board in 1992."Ernie Doebelin brought the practice of engineering to the classroom and to our students in a way that few others have done,"said Cheena Srinivasan,chairperson of the department."He would research commercial products and systems of interest thoroughly,communicate with their designers and developers in great detail,and relate the underlying engineering to the principles being taught in the classroom, quantitatively and comprehensively.He made engineering tangible to the student.” Emeritus Professor Denny Guenther paid tribute to Doebelin as well, "I always told my graduate students to enroll in Professor Doebelin's graduate level classes as they would be very useful in their engineering career.He made the understanding of mechanical measurement systems and their usefulness clear and concise such that the student would take that with them into their job.Indeed,many students often relayed their appreciation to me for having taken Doebelin's class.Ernie was an engineer's engineer
The Following is downloaded from Ohio State University’s website for the memory of a great teacher and author in the area of measurement and control, Prof. Ernest O. Doebelin!
Remembrance of Ernie Doebelin by Professor Emeritus Don Houser When I first came to interview for a faculty position at Ohio State in 1968,one of my professors at the University of Wisconsin had commented that he was in the process of adapting Doebelin's Measurement Systems book for an undergraduate course.Then,as my interview was near its completion I met for the first time with Ernie. In typical Doebelin fashion,there was no mincing of words when he said:"Don't let the talk of the other faculty fool you,when you get here, you will not be teaching machine design but will be teaching courses in system dynamics,controls and measurements."And that is certainly what came to pass. His controls book was one of the first written for mechanical engineers, as most earlier controls books were written for electrical engineers.I rate his measurements book as being a truly great book;it is,literally, like an encyclopedia of mechanical measurements that goes into great detail on the theory and modeling of measurement devices and systems. The book is now in its eighth edition and has been translated into many languages. But in my opinion,the most outstanding skill of Professor Doebelin was his ability to create student-friendly experiments that were designed to show,in real hardware,the principles being taught in each course that he developed.If one simply adds up the experiments that he developed in undergraduate required courses for ME 281(now ME 481),ME 482,ME 571,ME 570 and the four upper level courses he taught on a regular basis,one comes up with something like 50 experiments
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