Everything about Joseph Henry Keenan totally explained
Joseph Henry Keenan (
August 24 1900 -
July 17 1977) was an American
thermodynamicist and
mechanical engineer noted for his work in the calculation of steam tables, research in jet-rocket propulsion, and his work in furthering the development in the understanding of the
laws of thermodynamics in the mid 20th century. His classic 1941 textbook
Thermodynamics served as a fundamental teaching tool in various
engineering curriculums during the 1940s and 1950s.
He earned a bachelor's degree in naval architecture and marine engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1922. After working as a design engineer on steam turbines for
General Electric Company, Keenan became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the
Stevens Institute of Technology in
1928. In
1934, he became an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was promoted to professor in
1939. He served as Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from
1958 to
1961.
A major portion of Keenan’s career was devoted to the development of accurate tables of the properties of steam, which are vital to the electric power industry. In 1929, he was appointed the U.S. delegate to the First International Conference on the Properties of Steam; he served as delegate in all successive conferences on this subject through the eighth in 1974.
In 1965, he published the classic textbook
Principles of General Thermodynamics with
George Hatsopoulos which was major turning point in thermodynamics since
Gilbert N. Lewis and
Merle Randall with their 1923
Thermodynamics textbook. Their now famous version of the
second law of thermodynamics is:
This shows that the second law of thermodynamics can be stated in terms of the existence of stable equilibrium states.
He was a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was award the
ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal in
1955 for work on thermodynmics and the properties of steam. He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering in
1976.
In 2007, an International Thermodynamics Symposium called “meeting the
entropy challenge” was organized in
M.I.T. in Honor and Memory of Professor Joseph Henry Keenan.
http://mit.edu/keenansymposium/aboutjhkeenan/biography/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/hmtl/www/keenan.html
Further Information
Get more info on 'Joseph Henry Keenan'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://joseph_henry_keenan.totallyexplained.com">Joseph Henry Keenan Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
