Charles Henry Schilling

Background

Schilling, Charles Henry was born on June 3, 1918 in Louisville. Son of Henry M. and Caroline (Ravenscroft) Schilling.

Education

Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1941; Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1959.

Career

Commissioned Second lieutenant, United States Army, 1941; advanced through grades to brigadier general, United States Army served with engineer troops, 1941-1943; battalion commander, 284th Engineer Battalion, 1943-1944; battalion commander, 165th Engineer Combat Battalion, XV Corps, European Theatre of Operations, 1944-1945; battalion commander, 831st and 862d Engineer Aviation Bns., Germany, 1947-1950; instructor, then associate professor military art and engineering, United States Military Academy, 1951-1955; area engineer, Iceland, 1955-1956; professor military art and engineering, 1956-1969; head department, 1963-1969; professor engineering, head department, 1969-1980; chairman academic computer committee, 1960-1980; member chapel board, 1962-1963, 69-80; retired, 1980; civil engineer, Allen & Hoshall Engineers, 1981-1983; civil engineer, R.W. Beck Engineers, since 1987. Modern engring participant University of California at Los Angeles, summer 1963. Visiting professor chemical and metallurgical engineering University of Michigan, summer 1965.

Visiting professor Institute Statistics and Dynamics, U. Stuttgart, Federal Republic Germany, 1968-1969. Member computer graphics task force, waterways experiment station C.E., 1974-1975.

Achievements

• Registered profile engineer, New York, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama.

Membership

President board education West Point elementary schools, 1960-1963. Fellow Society of America Military Engineers. Member National Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society Engineering Education (computers in education division), Association Graduates United States Military Academy (trustee 1959-1962), Technology Council on Computer Practices (committee on state-of-art computer technical), American Society of Civil Engineers (chairman subcommittee on computer graphics 1973-1980), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Martha Hunter Wall, September 2, 1945. Children: Carolyn Hunter, Charles Henry, Mary Kathryn, Stephen Thomas, Robert Herschel.

Father:

Henry M. Schilling

Mother:

Caroline (Ravenscroft) Schilling

Spouse:

Martha Hunter Wall

child:

Carolyn Hunter Schilling

child:

Stephen Thomas Schilling

child:

Charles Henry Schilling

child:

Robert Herschel Schilling

child:

Mary Kathryn Schilling