In memoriam: Professor Emeritus F. Carlin Weimer, 1917-2011

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Professor Emeritus F. Carlin Weimer
Frank Carlin Weimer, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at The Ohio State University, passed away on Friday, November 18, 2011. He was 94.

Prof. Weimer was born in Dayton, Ohio, on July 27, 1917. He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1938, 1939, and 1943, respectively, all from The Ohio State University.

He was a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Ohio State University from 1941 to 1983. He had industrial experience in engineering at Delco Products and A.C. Spark Plug Divisions of General Motors Corporation and research experience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois as well as The Ohio State University Research Foundation. He also served as a consultant to several industrial and research organizations.

Prof. Weimer helped reactivate the Gamma Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu after World War II. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He was also a Senior Member of IEEE.

He served as chairman of the Columbus Section of AIEE in 1957-1958 and was chairman of the Linear Systems Committee of the Automatic Control Group of IEEE from 1963 to 1966. He is also a past president of the Franklin County Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers.

Prof. Weimer received an Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1960. He was awarded the ECE department’s first H.C. Ko Meritorious Service Award in 2008 for “personifying the spirit of service to the university, to the field of electrical engineering and to the student body.”

Read a complete obituary for Prof. Weimer in the Columbus Dispatch.

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