Walter Carl Huening

Background

Huening, Walter Carl was born on February 10, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Carl and Gladys (Whittemore) Huening.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering magna cum laude, Tufts U., 1944.

Career

Instructor electrical engineering, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1946-1948; distribution engineer plant engineering department, General Electric, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1948-1950; application engineer industrial power engineering, General Electric, Schenectady, New York, 1952-1956; product planner protective devices department, General Electric, Plainville, Connecticut, 1956-1958; design engineer vacuum cleaner department, General Electric, Cleveland, 1958-1959; application engineer commercial and municipal department, General Electric, Schenectady, 1960-1962; application engineer steel mill, General Electric, Schenectady, 1962-1968; consultant application engineer industrial power engineering, General Electric, Schenectady, 1968-1989. Member United States national committee International Electrotech. Commission, technical advisor on Technology Committee 73 matters, 1972-1989.

Achievements

• Avocations: photography, collecting recorded traditional jazz music M C.

Membership

Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, 1944-1946, 50-52, retired. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life, R. H. Kaufmann award 1988, Industrial and Commercial PowerSystems Department Achievement award 1989, prizes for papers 1970, 82). Member Tau Beta Pi.

Connections

Married Margaret Laurence McGeary, August 5, 1944 (deceased 1986). Children: Peter Carl, Susan Laurence Huening Locke. Married Elizabeth Ann Young Wright, April 9, 1988.

Father:

Walter Carl Huening

Mother:

Gladys (Whittemore) Huening

Spouse:

Elizabeth Ann Young Wright

Spouse:

Margaret Laurence McGeary

child:

Peter Carl Huening

child:

Susan Laurence Huening Locke Huening