DOLAND

DOLAND 01.08. 1890 Denver CO/USA 23.12. 1960 Champaign IL/USA James Joseph Doland obtained his BS degree in 1914 from University of Colorado, his MS degree from the University of Illinois in 1932, and in 1944 received the Honorary PhD degree from St. John’s University, Collegeville MN. He was until 1916 an instructor of engineering mathematics at University of Colorado, until 1923 an engineer at Minneapolis MN, and until 1926 an engineer with the US Bureau of Reclamation USBR, from when he took over as civil engineering professor at University of Illinois, Urbana IL. From 1936 he was in parallel consulting engineer for the National Resources Planning Board. In 1941 Doland was also the principal engineer for USED, and British colonies in the Caribbean for lend-lease airbases. From 1944 he was a consulting hydraulic engineer for the Union Electric Co., St. Louis MO. He was further member of the Joint Council on National Water Policy. Doland was a member ASCE, and of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers AICE. Doland was at University of Illinois for 32 years. He was recognized as one of the nation’s prominent engineers dealing with power development, hydrology and water resources planning. Students were excited of Doland’s lectures. One stated: ‘He was not only a wonderful teacher, but he was much more than that. He had the unique character of making everybody in his class feel somehow that he was somebody Doland was personally interested in, and he certainly gave that feeling from the start. Hundreds of his former students share similar feeling that I have in that respect’. Doland is known for three books, namely Hydro-power engineering, Water-supply engineering and Low dams. He is also noted for his co-authorship with Hardy Cross (1885-1959) of the Cross-Doland Method on flow analysis in water distribution systems. Anonymous (1941). Doland, James Joseph. Who’s who in engineering 5: 472. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1959). Doland, James Joseph. Who’s who in America 28: 708. Marquis: Chicago. Doland, J.J. (1930). Design of monolithic concrete siphons simplified by use of diagrams. Engineering News-Record 104(26): 1047-1052. Doland, J.J., Chow, V.T. (1952). Discussion of River channel roughness, by H.A. Einstein, N.L. Barbarossa. Trans. ASCE 117: 1134-1139. Doland, J.J. (1954). Hydro-power engineering. Ronald Press: New York. https://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:a7e7nXpUGSYJ:cee.illinois.edu/about/history/doland+% 22James+Joseph+Doland%22&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=ch P

DOMINY 04.12. 1909 Hastings NE/USA 20.04. 2010 Boyce VA/USA Floyd Erin Dominy graduated from the University of Wyoming, Laramie in 1933, with a BA degree in economics and a BS in agricultural engineering. He was then appointed county agricultural agent, and in 1938 became field agent for the Western Division of the Agricultural Administration, Washington DC. In 1944 he was commissioned in the US Naval Reserve serving during the last two war years on Pacific islands. He joined in 1946 the US Bureau of Reclamation USBR as land development specialist responsible for establishing procedures by which the newly irrigated land could be returned to war veterans. He learned the Bureau from the ground, advancing to chief of the Irrigation Division, and to assistant commissioner in 1957, taking over in 1959 as Commissioner the Bureau by appointment of President Eisenhower. He was retired in 1969. He was considered as one of the Nation’s giants in water and land development projects and was named in 1966 one of the Public Works Man of the Year. The 1966 paper deals with intakes in irrigation works and the optimum of desilting the water discharge. It is stated that the economic disposal of sediment requires a thorough knowledge of sediment control devices including cost, construction, operation and maintenance. If the effect of sediment is not considered, then injurious effects on the land and the crop may result. By utilizing hydraulic laboratory techniques, the USBR adopted final prototype designs for the construction of its irrigation system, which are presented in this work. Later, it was stated that Dominy was a man who grew up in the dry lands of Nebraska, and knew first-hand the damage that lack of water can have. It was for this reason he dedicated himself to building dams supplying the society with water. His energy and honesty came through loud and clear. Dominy, F.E. (1966). Design of desilting works for irrigation systems. Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division ASCE 92(IR4): 1-26; 93(IR1): 281-287; 94(IR3): 339-341. Dominy, F.E. (1968). Role of irrigation in the West’s expanding economy. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Division ASCE 94(IR4): 401-418; 95(IR4): 607-623; 96(IR2): 223. Pisani, D.J. (2002). A tale of two commissioners: Frederick H. Newell and Floyd E. Dominy. History of Bureau of Reclamation: A symposium: 637-650. Las Vegas NV. P Warne, W.E. (1973). The Bureau of Reclamation. Praeger: New York. P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Dominy P https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=floyd-dominy&pid=142123170#fb