WADDELL

WADDELL 01.05. 1877 Hillsboro NC/USA 20.04. 1945 Biltmore NC/USA Charles Edward Waddell received his education from the Bingham Military Academy, Asheville NC, graduating in 1894. He became in 1901 chief engineer at Asheville, where he was engaged on the design of the largest electrical heating plant by then yet attempted. He became consulting engineer in 1903, and soon was one of the leading engineers in the Southeast for hydropower and steam-generated plants. His list of constructed works includes the North Carolina Electric Power Company’s system with the Weaver and Marshall hydroelectric plants, the Sunburst Arch Dam, and a large filter plant for a fiber company at Canton NC, besides a number of wooden, earthen, gravity concrete, arch, and multiple arch dams. Waddell served in 1913 a company at Boston MA, and he also made waterways studies for the Southern Railway Company at Washington DC. In 1917, he was involved in a similar study between Cincinnati OH and Harriman TN. In recognition of his work in developing hydroelectric power in North Carolina, the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him in 1925 by the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh NC. He was a member and chairman of the NC State Board of Engineering Examiners from 1921 to 1926, of the NC Ship and Water Transportation Commission, consulting engineer with the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA from 1936 to 1938, among other engagements. He served as consulting engineer the Department of Antioquia in Columbia on the design of hydroelectric plants. He was identified as a great leader and teacher; to young engineers he was never too busy to impart to them the benefit of his vast store of knowledge and experience. He was from 1919 member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, organizing the North Carolina Section in 1923 at Durham NC, serving as its president until 1925. Alexander, B. (2008). C.E. Waddell. Around Biltmore Village: 66. Arcadia: San Francisco. P Anonymous (1947). Charles E. Waddell. Trans. ASCE 112: 1543-1545. Waddell, C.E. (1905). The preservation of the Southern Appalachian streams: A forest problem. Trans. AIEE 24(8): 839-842. Waddell, C.E. (1907). Southern Appalachian streams. Journal of the Franklin Institute 164(3): 161-175. Waddell, C.E. (1930). Hydraulic-fill core control. Engineering News-Record 105(25): 958-961. Waddell, C.E. (1936). Charles E. Waddell Papers 1914-1934. University of North Carolina.