More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have
been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of
Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of
Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution.
Awarded the honorary title of ""Dean of the Deans of Engineering
Universities"" in 1949 by his alma mater, MIT, Potter has been a
teacher for 48 years and a dean for 40. Among his thousands of
colleagues at Kansas State, Purdue, and the professional societies
he has headed, he is known with respect and affection simply as
""the Dean."" This book, illustrated with photographs, traces his
life from his boyhood in Russia and his journey at age 15 to
America where, he contends, his life really began. We see him as a
student cutting lab classes to attend an afternoon concert of the
Boston Symphony, as a young man growing a van Dyke beard to make
himself look older for his first job as an engineer with General
Electric, and as a new assistant professor at Kansas State,
courting his schoolteacher-sweetheart in a horse and buggy. His
contributions to the engineering profession are many. He was
president of the leading professional societies, prepared an
exhaustive state-of-the-art study of engineering, and enhanced the
public service aspects of his field by participating in government
advisory boards. Greatly admired for his work with the National
Patent Planning Commission, where he protected the right of the
inventor to the fruits of his ingenuity, he is also respected for
his publications in his own area of research, power generation and
super-critical steam. A selected bibliography lists his writings.
At Kansas State and Purdue, he organized curricula to emphasize
study that could be used by engineers to solve problems in
agriculture and industry; this brought farmers and businessmen
closer to the campus and more aware of the university's service to
their state. He found deepest pleasure, however, not in these
accomplishments, but in the personal contacts he established with
students and colleagues. In his own words, ""the secret of success
is to love one's fellow men.
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