Education
University of California, Berkeley. Lehigh University.
University of California, Berkeley. Lehigh University.
The New York Times called him "an expert on tall buildings". Beedle is also credited with making Lehigh University a center of research for civil and structural engineering because of his "groundbreaking studies on the properties of steel structures". Beedle was born in Orland, California.
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Surgery degree and joined United States Navy.
In 1952 received his doctorate from Lehigh University in structural engineering after 5 years of working there as an instructor and graduate studies.