KALINSKE

KALINSKE 02.09. 1911 Plymouth WI/USA 18.03. 1985 Walnut Creek CA/USA Anton Adam Kalinske obtained in 1935 his MS degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison WI. He was from 1936 to 1947 assistant, and associate professor of hydraulic and mechanical engineering at University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, and in parallel associate director of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research from 1942 to 1946. He then joined until 1949 as chief hydraulic engineer the Infilco Inc., Tucson AZ, from when he there took over as research director. He became a private consultant in 1965 for an office at Salt Lake City UT. In 1969 he accepted the post of professor at the Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan UT. He was later also associated with Camp, Dresser & McKee Inc., Boston MA. Initiating research in turbulence theory, Kalinske gradually moved to the field of hydraulic and sanitary engineering. He was one of the main collaborators of the current Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research IIHR founded and later directed by Hunter Rouse (1906-1996), yet left this Institute in 1947. During this period, he undertook noteworthy studies in collaboration with Edward R. van Driest (1913-2005) or James M. Robertson (1916-2012) on turbulence statistics and air-water flow in closed conduits. His research dealt with the application of fluid mechanics to problems of hydraulic engineering, sediment transport, and conduit flow. He was the recipient of the 1947 ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Award for an excellent paper on energy conversion in expansions. Once he had left academia, he took interest in the movement of suspensions and their separation from water. He thereby invented five devices relative to water and sewage treatment equipment. He was a member ASCE, AWWA and AGU. Anonymous (1948). A.A. Kalinske. Civil Engineering 18(1): 45. P Anonymous (1959). Kalinske, A.A. Who’s who in engineering 8: 1288. Lewis: New York. Kalinske, A.A., van Driest, E.R. (1939). Application of statistical theory of turbulence to hydraulic problems. Proc. 5th IUTAM Congress Cambridge MA: 416-421. Kalinske, A.A. (1941). Turbulence and energy dissipation. Trans. ASME 63(1): 41-48. Kalinske, A.A., Robertson, J.M. (1943). Closed conduit flow. Trans. ASCE 108: 1435-1447. Kalinske, A.A. (1953). Settling rate of suspensions in solids contact. Proc. ASCE 79(186): 1-8. Kalinske, A.A. (1954). Flotation and sedimentation in treating wastes. Water and Sewage Works 101(3): 128-131. P Kalinske, A.A. (1970). Turbulence diffusivity in activated sludge aeration basins. Pergamon: NY.

KAYS 22.01. 1881 Tonica IL/USA 13.03. 1946 Atlanta GA/USA Marion Reed Kays started his studies at University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, but graduated in 1906 from University of Illinois, Urbana IL, as a civil engineer. He was then employed as assistant engineer by the US Reclamation Service on irrigation works on the North Platte Project in Wyoming and Nebraska, and later on the Idaho Irrigation Company, becoming in 1911 its vice-president and manager. During the next eight years he was responsible for all funds, water supply, management and operation, precipitation and stream flow measurements and records, incidental construction, and corporation with state authorities. In 1920 Kays became associated with an engineering corporation of San Francisco CA, in charge of its Phoenix AZ office. He there acted as project engineer for the ParadiseVerde Irrigation District, and was in charge of the analyses of the design of reservoirs, dams, diversion works, and canals. In 1923 he became special field engineer for the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, where he was engaged on the measurements on canal water loss, the quantity of water to be saved by lining the many canals, and the enlargement of the power plant at Roosevelt Dam. Kays was appointed manager of the Lake Worth Drainage District FL in 1924, which brought there a thorough, practical knowledge of the principles of the artificial control of water for agriculture. The relation between soil moisture and plant growth, the construction and operation of reclamation works, and the appreciation of public agencies engaged in this service were considered. The system of canals was incomplete, and the existing control works insufficient, and there were also no pumps when Kays started his work with the District. As manager, he studied these deficiencies and improved the conditions significantly. He resigned in 1938 the management by preparing a detailed report, making recommendations for the future. He was in 1939 appointed chief engineer of the West Palm Beach Housing Authority, and served from 1941 as resident manager the defence development during World War II. He was remembered for his enthusiastic handling of drainage problems in Florida, and for his tenacity in the accomplishment of long-time objectives. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE from 1927. Anonymous (1945). Marion R. Kays. Engineering News-Record 134(Feb.1): 152. P Anonymous (1948). Marion R. Kays. Trans. ASCE 113: 1483-1487. Harper, F., ed. (1913). Kays, Marion R. Who’s who on the Pacific Coast: 312. Los Angeles. https://www.google.ch/imgres?imgurl=https://o.mfcreative.com/f2/file08/objects/0/1/e/801e6c61-4483-40a2-9918 P