Distinguished Engineer
Hometown: Madison
Civil Engineering,
Robert D. Mitchell spent two years working as an engineering consultant in Madison following his graduation from South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã State College. He returned to SDSC as an instructor for two years and went on to study at Harvard University where he received his M.S. degree and was a Gordon McKay fellow in sanitary engineering. He joined Malcolm Pirnie of New York where he began work as a project engineer. He was named senior vice president and chief engineer in 1970. Among his projects are two dams for Waterbury, Connecticut; two dams for New Haven, Connecticut; a dam for Rome, New York; a dam on the Maumelle River in Arkansas, two wastewater facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio; the expansion of wastewater facilities in Cleveland, Ohio; two water filtration plants in Newport News, Virginia; three water filtration plants in Birmingham, Alabama and two water filtration plants in Erie County, New York. During World War II, he served as a major in the U.S. Army assigned to the Office of Interamerican Affairs. After the war, he returned to Malcom Pirnie and worked there until his retirement in 1975