Background
DeLuccia, Emil Robert was born on September 20, 1904 in Brighton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Emil James and Edna Laura (Hewes) de L.
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Emil Robert DeLuccia
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Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1927.
Career
Surveyman and transitman, Metropolitan Water Supply Commission, Enfield, Massachusetts, 1927-1929;
engineer designer, Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, 1929-1931;
engineer inspector and designer, United States Engineer Office, Charleston, West Virginia, 1931-1933;
associate engineer and chief of design section, United States Engineer Office, Huntington, West Virginia, 1933-1938;
associate engineer and chief of design section, Federal Power Commission, 1938-1951;
commissioned captain, Army of the United States, 1942;
advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, Army of the United States, 1945;
with, SHEAF, Europe, 1944;
retired, 1956;
general engineering consultant and manager Yale hydroelectric project and others, Pacific Power & Light Company, 1951;
vice president, chief engineer, Pacific Power & Light Company, 1952-1966;
senior vice president, Pacific Power & Light Company, 1966-1969;
president, Oregon Graduate Center, 1969-1972;
life trustee, Oregon Graduate Center (now Oregon Graduate Institute), 1989-1992;
construction engineering, 1969-1992;
vice president, Overseas Advisory Associates, Inc., 1973-1992;
senior engineer consultant on dams and hydroelectric projects, 1938-1940;
chief, power supply branch, National Defense Power staff, 1940-1941;
assistant director National Defense Power staff and assistant chief bureau of Elec. Engineering (also consultant on power to Office of Personnel Management and War Production Board), chief, bureau of Power, 1944-1992;
head group economics and energy studies, South Vietnam, 1971-1972, 74-75. United States delegate International Conference on High Dams, Stockholm, 1948, International Conference on High Tension Elec.
Systems, Paris, 1948. Chief United States delegationInternat. Conference High Tension Lines, Paris, 1950.
United States delegate World Power Conference, London, England., 1950. United States official Negotiation Treaty with Canada for division of water at Niagara Falls. Consultant to United Nations, Japan, 1961, Atomic Energy Commission, National Security Resources Board.
Chairman International Passamaquoddy Board Engineers, United States Committee on Large Dams. Member Technology Industrial Disarmament Committee for German and Japan Elec. Power Industry; vice-Chairman, Board Of Directors Oregon chapter American Automobile Association.
Achievements
Membership
Life trustee Oregon Graduate Motivate, 1989. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member Society of America Military Engineers (director, recipient Goethals medal award 1963), American Institute of Management, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Geophysical Union, American Legion, International Association High Tension Lines, International Association Hydraulic Research, International Association Large Dams, American Automobile Association, Army-Navy Country Club (Arlington, Virginia), Cosmos (Washington), Arlington University, Wavery Country (Portland), Masons (Ware, Massachusetts chapter), Shriners.
Connections
Married Margaret McCutcheon, January 16, 1932. Children: Margaret Crichton, Jane Hewes.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Decorated medal of merit Legion of Merit. Medal of Merit 1st class South Vietnam. Named Oregon Engineer of Year, 1962. Recipient Aubrey R. Watzek award Lewis and Clark College, 1986.Decorated medal of merit Legion of Merit. Medal of Merit 1st class South Vietnam. Named Oregon Engineer of Year, 1962.
Recipient Aubrey R. Watzek award Lewis and Clark College, 1986.