Allie Maitland Smith

Background

Smith, Allie Maitland was born on June 9, 1934 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. Son of Allie McCoy and Emma Hattie (Wright) Smith.

Education

BME with honors, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1956; Master of Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1966.

Career

Associate engineer Martin Company, Baltimore, 1956-1957. Development engineer Western Electric Company, 1957-1960. Member technical staff Bell Telephone Laboratories, Burlington, North Carolina, 1960-1962.

Instructor, then assistant professor extension North Carolina State University, 1958-1962. Research project engineer Research Triangle Institute, Durham, North Carolina, 1962-1966. Research supervisor Sverdrup/Agricultural Research Organization, Inc., Arnold Air Force Station, Tennessee, 1966-1979.

Adjunct professor University Tennessee, Tullahoma, 1967-1979. Professor mechanical engineering University Mississippi, University, 1979—2008, dean School Engineering, 1979—2000. Board directors, scholarship board Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute.

Executive chairman 14th conference Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, executive committee 13th-16th conferences, operations committee and policy committee, 1990-1999, session chair, 1994. Organizing committee, international science advisory board, plenary session presiding officer International Conference on Hydrosci. and Engineering, 1993, 95. Organizing committee, plenary session chair Conference on Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision, 1997.

Keynote lecture and plenary sessions chair, 3rd International Conference on Hydrosci. and Engineering, Berlin, 1998.

Achievements

• Allie Maitland Smith has been listed as a noteworthy University dean by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Fundamentals and Applications of Radiation Heat Transfer/Asme Htd Vol. 72./H00391
  • Radiation Heat Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications (Proceedings of the Asme Heat Transfer Division)

Membership

Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (chairman thermophysics technical committee 1975-1977, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (aerospace heat transfer committee 1975-2007. Chairman radiative heat transfer I and II sessions, Pittsburgh 2000, chairman radiation heat transfer II session, St. Louis, 2002, chairman terrestrial energy system technical committee 1979-1981, chairman conferences 1975, 79, associate editor journal 1975-1977, 1986-2007, national publication committee 1979-1983, National Thermophysics award 1978, Hermann Oberth award 1984-1985, Space Shuttle Flag Challenger plaque 1984, supernumerary director Alabama-Mississippi section 1994-2000). Member American Association of University Professors, National Society of Professional Engineers (president Northeast Mississippi chapter 1990-1991), American Society Engineering Education (host National Engineering Deans' Institute 1991), New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Sigma Pi (scholar 1955), Order of the Engineer, Notable.

Connections

Married Sarah Louise Whitlock, June 16, 1957. Children: Sara Leianne, Hollis Duval, Meredith Lorren.

Father:

Allie McCoy Smith

Mother:

Emma Hattie (Wright) Smith

Spouse:

Sarah Louise Whitlock

child:

Sara Leianne Smith

child:

Meredith Lorren Smith

child:

Hollis Duval Smith