Bohdan T. Hnatiuk papers

1963-1998

MC 8, 2.33 cubic feet

Bohdan Taras Hnatiuk was a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics from 1960 until 1995.  He was born in the Ukraine in 1915; earned his doctorate in engineering from the Technical University in Danzig, Germany, in 1945; and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.  Before coming to Drexel he taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1951 to 1957 and at West Virginia University from 1957 to 1960.  His area of expertise was aeronautical engineering; he conducted research with NASA from 1967 to 1979 and was awarded the forty-year service award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1993.  Dr. Hnatiuk died in 1998.  This collection consists of Dr. Hnatiuk's research notes, manuscripts, publications, lecture notes, and presentations.  Some correspondence and a few brochures from the mechanical engineering department are present among Dr. Hnatiuk's personal papers as well.  The collection also includes a 16mm reel film, "Channel flow of a compressible fluid."

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