Background
Gumpertz, Werner Herbert was born on December 26, 1917 in Berlin. Son of Richard and Olga H. (Prenzlau) Gumpertz.
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Werner Herbert Gumpertz
Edit ProfileStructural engineering company executive
Education
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1939. SBCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948. Master of Science in Building Engineering and Construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950.
Advanced professional degree in building engineering and construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.
Career
Construction supervisor, expeditor, draftsman Homes & Gardens Incorporated, New York York City, 1940. Engineering draftsman, surveyor Lockwood Kessler & Bartlett, Brooklyn, 1940-1941. Office engineer, estimator, construction supervisor M. Shapiro & Sons Construction Company, New York City and Newport News, Virginia, 1941-1943.
Engineering assistant to head Kaiser Company Inc. Shipyard, Vancouver, Washington, 1943. Structural engineer United States Army Corps of Engineers, European Theatre of Operations, 1946-1947.
Office and field engineer United Engineers & Constructors Inc., Philadelphia and Devon, Connecticut, 1948-1949. Professor civil engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949-1957. Senior principal Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Waltham, since 1956.
Instructor structural engineering Bridgeport Engineering Institute, 1948-1949, University Massachusetts Extension, 1953-1962. Consultant building construction and material technical, building systems and assemblies of materials. Lecturer Harvard Graduate School Design, 1985, 87.
With United States Army, World World War II Europe.
Achievements
Membership
Member Advisory Committee on Public Building Construction, City of Newton, Massachusetts, 1956-1968. Guidance lecturer Cambridge Public School System, 1955-1957. Served to corporal United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Fellow American Society of Civil Engineers (national committee on standards, secretary-treasurer, joint committee on professional conduct Massachusetts section), American Society for Testing and Materials Internat (chairman committee D-8 on roofing, waterproofing and bituminous materials 1981-1985, real estate committee 1988-1995, Award of Merit 1986, Walter C. Voss award to Engineer for Outstanding Contribution to Advancement of Building Technology 1987, William C. Cullen award 2004, Dudley Award, 2008 Carl Cash Award, 2008). Member American Concrete Institute (committee on residential concrete slabs, cellular concrete committee), United States Metric Association (certified advanced metrication specialist), American Society Engineering Education (chairman architectural engineering division), American Arbitration Association (national panel arbitrators), National Fire Protection Association, Midwest Roofing Contractors Association (associate), National Roofing Contractors Association (associate), Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Elizabeth Mildred Lewit, November 25, 1949. Children: Richard H., Ruth O. Gumpertz Moses.
