Eugene John Brunelle

Background

Brunelle, Eugene John was born on March 17, 1932 in Montpelier, Vermont, United States. Son of Eugene John Senior Brunelle and Maxine Gertrude (Chatfield) Corson.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University Michigan, 1953; Master of Science in Engineering, University Michigan, 1955; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.

Career

Assistant professor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1960-1964; associate professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, since 1964; professor emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Visiting professor Air Force Institute Technology, Dayton, Ohio, 1983-1985. Consultant aerospace firms, since 1958.

Membership

Patron Challenger Space Centers, since 1988. Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy mechanics (founding), Society Industrial and AppliedMaths., American Mathematics Society Achievements include discovery of similarityrules and scaling laws for composite structures, of affine transformations for all the field equations of classical physics and mechanics. Discovery of fundamental solution properties of classical linear elasticity.

Connections

Married Raylene Julia Clark, June 12, 1955 (divorced September 1967). Children: Steven, Alison, Holly.

Father:

Eugene John Senior Brunelle Corson

Mother:

Maxine Gertrude (Chatfield) Corson

Spouse:

Raylene Julia Clark

child:

Steven Brunelle

child:

Holly Brunelle

child:

Alison Brunelle