Taft H. Broome
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Howard University
United States of America
Biography
Taft Broome holds the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recipient of the 2011 Olmsted Award of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Fellow of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Alumni Association, 2005-06 Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 2006 recipient of the Profile In Courage Award from the Howard University Faculty Senate. He holds the Sc.D. degree (1972) and the M.S. degree (1968) in civil engineering from the George Washington University, the M.S. degree in engineering ethics from RPI (1985), and the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Howard University (1966).
Research Interest
Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Ethics
Publications
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Tesfaye, E. and Broome, T.H. 1978. Effect of Weight on the Stability of Masonry Walls. J. of the Structural Division, ASCE, vol. 103, no. 5, pp. 961-970.
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Broome, T.H. 1978. Issues in Ethics for Engineering School Publications. Professional Engineer, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 28-30.
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Broome, T.H. and Hyman, B.I. 1975. An Analysis of Shallow Spheroidal Shells by a Semi-Inverse Contour Method. International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 11, Dec., pp. 1281-1289.
