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He received numerous professional awards in his discipline, one of the most recent being the prestigious Hoover Medal, given annually by the ASME and other professional societies to the individual “who contributed maximally to the goals and ideals of the engineering profession.” During more than five decades of service to the research and development community, he received hundreds of advisory appointments to blue ribbon civilian and military boards and committees. Published papers on structures, aerodynamics, mathematics, engineering analysis, research administration, and other subjects.

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He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) a fellow, past president, and director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of two professional honor societies, Sigma XI and Tau Beta PI.Īctive in numerous scientific advisory groups at the national level, he had broad experience in aircraft design, applied mechanics, and operations research. In 1955 he accepted a position as vice-president of Southwest Research Institute, and in 1959 he was elected president, the position he held at the time of his death. In 1946 he was recruited as chairman of the engineering mechanics division at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, where he met and married his wife of forty-nine years. He headed the Applied Mechanics Section at Curtiss-Wright Corporation from 1942 to 1946. Martin Goland was an instructor in the Medical Engineering Department at Cornell from 1940 to 1942. degree from Cornell University, where he graduated summa cum laude and in 1968 an L.L.D.

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Goland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 12, 1919. M ARTIN GOLAND, president of Southwest Research Institute, died on October 29, 1997, at the age of seventy-eight.







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