When finished, it housed the Computer Center, Mathematics Department, the Geography and Geology Department (now Department of Geography and Earth Sciences) and the Engineering Program. The 71,000 square-foot, $1.6 million facility was the largest classroom and laboratory building on the campus at the time.
The Smith Building, completed in 1966, was originally called the Engineering Building.
Smith left Charlotte to become vice president of Douglas Aircraft and vice president of Douglas United Nuclear Corp. State University.Īs an advocate for the college, Smith once said, “If we marry the manpower development of this Charlotte College area of some 1 million people to the tremendous demand of technical industries for engineers and scientists, we will accomplish two ends: to help satisfy the great national requirements for engineers and scientists and to improve the usefulness and economic standards of the residents of North Carolina.” In addition to starting the University’s engineering program, Smith is credited with bringing graduate courses in mathematics and physics to the-then Charlotte College through a cooperative agreement with N.C. Prior to moving to Charlotte, he was an assistant design engineer for missiles at the company’s Santa Monica facility. Following the war, he was a missile project engineer with the Douglas Aircraft Co. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant with the Engineering Division of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and was assigned to the missiles branch. engineers taught at Charlotte College on a released time basis as many as nine part-time instructors from Douglas were in service at one time.ī orn in Redlands, Calif., on March 26, 1910, Smith graduated from Pomona College in 1932 with a bachelor’s degree in physics. Through his generosity, Douglas Aircraft Co. He is credited with bringing an engineering program to the institution. Smith, vice president and general manager of the Douglas Aircraft Company’s Charlotte Division, served as a trustee of Charlotte College from 1958 to 1965. Monograph Title: MOVING TOWARD DEPLOYMENT.The Sheldon Phelps Smith Building honors an individual whose foresight helped to chart UNC Charlotte’s educational course.Location: Atlanta Georgia, United States.Proceedings of the IVHS America Annual Meeting. IVHS America 400 Virginia Avenue, SW, Suite 800 The results are discussed in terms of the minimum educational requirements for ATMS "operators," the perceived relationship of the ATMS operator's job to other jobs lying along a continuum of "supervisory control," the perceived importance of individual skills identified in an FHWA study of IVHS staffing and education needs, issues related to career advancement and personnel retention, as well as the impact of the prevailing ATMS concept of operations on future system growth and expansion. The survey was conducted in order to provide the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) with information from current users' perspectives on the manpower/personnel factors important to the design, operations, and maintenance of a 15-mile IVHS freeway management system to be developed in the Charlotte, N.C.
responded to a survey developed by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. Operational personnel at two Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) sites in the U.S. ATMS MANPOWER/PERSONNEL 'DESIGN' CONSIDERATIONS UNDER A DESIGN-BUILD APPROACH
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