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Inventory of the Papers of Dan H. Pletta
Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech

Part 1 (Boxes 1-5) - Part3 (Boxes 6-10) - Part 3 (Boxes 11-16)

Box 11 (Pletta)

Folder

• 448. Committee on Engineering Management & Leadership
• 449. Committee on Engineering Management & Leadership
• 450. Order of the Engineering Meeting, 11/5-7/92
• 451. To Be an Engineer - Pamphlet
• 452. Order of the Engineer National Correspondence, Jan 1977 - July 1990
• 453. Sigma XI at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• 454. Guiding Technology
• 455. McGraw-Hill Review - Steven Ross, 19/81
• 456. Miscellaneous Book Reviews
• 457. ASCE Articles-Are We Educating Engineering Professionals?
• 458. Discussion, paper by Kenneth A. Roe
• 459. ASCE Article, "Ethical Codes-Enforcement vs. Obedience"
• 460. Miscellaneous Articles/IIT Lecture Correspondence
• 461. "Engineering Professionalism-Light at the End of the Tunnel"
• 462. "Trends in Faculty Qualifications and Objectives" 1974
• 463. ASCE Article, "The Making of a Pro" 1974
• 464. ASCE Article, "Ingeniur Diplomats - Public Advocates Worldwide" 1976
• 465. ASCE Article, "Engineering Leadership and Technological Teamwork"
• 466. "What If"
• 467. "Engineering: Answers for the 1980s"/"Beyond Whistle Blowing"
• 468. NSPE Engineering Times, Letter to the Editor 6/20/91
• 469. "The Development of Professional Schools"
• 470. Professional Conflicts, Faculty Unions
• 471. ASEE, 1987 Meeting, Reno: "Excellence in Engineering. Education"
• 472. ASEE Articles
• 473. Discussion of Victor Paschkis Paper
• 474. "Personally Speaking - Professional Freedom for Responsible Practice," 1978
• 475. "Coupling Economics with Ethics for Employed Engineers," 1977
• 476. "Collective Bargaining and Engineering. Faculties"
• 477. "Consulting and Licensing of Engineering Faculties"
• 478. Engineering Education Crisis - ASEE, Professional Engineering Programs
• 479. "A Proposed Concept for a Practice Oriented Professional Degree in Engineering"
• 480. "Source Funding and Destination of Grad Student in Mech." 1970
• 481. Discussion: "Fundamentals of Engineering Examination Review"
• 482. Discussion "Engagement of Engineers in Science Policy"
• 483. "Civil Engineering Design Professionals Should Be Regular Engineers"
• 484. "Whistleblowing"
• 485. "The Overstressed Transportation Issue," Robert Schumacher and Pletta
• 486. Discussion: "Dialogue on Political Contributions and Engineering"
• 487. Professional Support for Safety: Conscious Whistleblowers
• 488. Discussion: Visioning
• 489. Discussion: "Why Four Years?"
• 490. "Engineering Responsibility," April 1987
• 491. "Is an Expanded Role for Engineers. Needed?"
• 492. "Public Affairs Activity: Seeds of Reality"
• 493. Discussion: "Developing Countries: High Tech or Innovative Management," 1989
• 494. Discussion: "Life Cycle Engineering"
• 495. "To Practice or Perish," Pletta and George A. Gray
• 496. "Uninvolved Professionals and Technical Disasters"
• 497. "Social Science Emphasis in Engineering Education"
• 498. "Tomorrow's Professional Engineer--Public's Advocate?"
• 499. "Why Professional Schools for Engineers?"
• 500. "Engineering Leadership and Crisis Control," 1978
• 501. "Society's Needs: Leaders"; "The Status of Collective Bargaining in Engineering"
• 502. "The Engineer - His Brother's Keeper," 1971
• 503. "Unionized Faculties" (1973), "When Is Engineering Registration Required?" (1965), "Quo Vadimus" (1952)
• 504. "Professionalism: An Added Dimension" 1980
• 505. TORCH Awards Committee and Correspondence
• 506. "Needed: An Engineering Manifesto for a Higher Calling"
• 507. Montgomery County Torch Club
• 508. "The Biggest Game in Town"
• 509. "Are Foxes Guarding the Hen House?"
• 510. SESA & Stanford Mechanics Alumni News Letter
• 511. "The Engineering Professions Dual Challenge, VPI & SU
• 512. "The Engineer's Destiny"
• 513. "Engineering's Emerging Public Purpose
• 514. Virginia Academy of Science (1985); "The Technologist's Political Impotence"
• 515. "Grooming the Engineer's Personality for his Profession's Emerging Public Purpose"
• 516. Engineering Unity: 20/20 Hindsight"
• 517. Economic and Political Constraints
• 518. Education
• 519. Ethics
• 520. Miscellaneous; Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario; Stephen Jack
• 521. Whistleblowing Correspondence
• 522. Miscellaneous Papers: "Fatigue Life Reduction," "All Nailed Lumber Truss"
• 523. Miscellaneous Papers: Wood Flooring Systems
• 524. Miscellaneous Papers and Reports

Box 12 (Pletta)

Folder

• 525. Script for Engineering Fund. Video Tape on Professionalism and Ethics
• 526. Miscellaneous Talks, University of Kansas
• 527. ABET National Congress on Engineering Education, 1986
• 528. Needed: An Engineering Manifesto and a Patron Saint"
• 529. Professional Schools - VPI Professional School Task Force
• 530. Professional Schools - VPI Reports, May 1974
• 531. Professional Schools ABET 1986 Congress: Pritzker, Eldon. Cranch, Nordby
• 532. Professional Schools - Charles W. Matheny Correspondence
• 533. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Educational Consulting, 1995
• 534. Professional Schools - Arizona State University Report, 1992
• 535. Professional Schools - NSPE/PEE, Criteria, Long-Range Strategy Memo, 1977
• 536. VPI/BET Phase Out
• 537. ASME Symposium on Technological Change, 1989
• 538. University of London - External Degrees
• 539. International Participatory Engineering Society (Pletta and Halbert Brinson) 1980
• 540. Miscellaneous
• 541. Engineering Organization, American Academy of Mechanics
• 542. The Engineering Profession and Its Public Purpose
• 543. Engineering Organization American Society of Engineering Management
• 544. Engineering Organization: ABA and AMA Professional Standards and Engineering
• 545. Engineers Joint Council-AAES-ABET
• 546. National Science Foundation Workshop - Ethics - World Future Society
• 547. Unity - Engineers Joint Council - AAES
• 548. Omicron Delta Kappa
• 549. Virginia Tech College of Engineering
• 550. Quotes
• 551. Patent Policy
• 552. Miscellaneous Articles on Professional Engineers
• 553. Admiral H. G. Rickover, "A Humanistic Technology"
• 554. "The Energy Age," David A. Mathison
• 555. Maestros of Tech - Arthur M. Squires
• 556. "The Importance of the Bicentennial for Engineers"
• 557. Robert L. Whitelaw
• 558. Miscellaneous Papers and Reports (1)
• 559. Miscellaneous Papers and Reports (2)
• 560. Howard R. Johnson Brakes and Magnetic Motors
• 561. Summary--Engineers in the Literature
• 562. Ingenior
• 563. Educational Consulting
• 564. Texas A&M, 2/16/88
• 565. Lindbergh Fund Proposal, 1985
• 566. Trucks -- Francis Sherry
• 567. Educational Consulting/Dr. S.J. Brown/Akron, Ohio
• 568. Governor's Magnet School/Radford University, 1985
• 569. MSPE Student Chapter 3/20/86
• 570. An Engineering Manifesto
• 571. Paul Craft, Jr./Radial Engine
• 572. Virginia Tech Curriculum and Departments; Miscellaneous Articles
• 573. Correspondence, Miscellaneous
• 574. Engineering's Unity and Expanding Obligation/NSPE Engineering Times and Letters to the Editor
• 575. South Africa Trip, 1980
• 576. United States and China People's Friendship Association
• 577. Nickolai Mahutou (USSR); International Congress
• 578. H. Kenneth Rigsbee: Restructuring Engineering Education: Virginia Tech College of Engineering Report:
• Professional Engineering Program
• 579. International Alliance of Ingeniors Constitution; Letters to ABET
• 580. Memories of the first 40 years: History of Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech
• 581. Virginia Tech Presidential Symposium, University Distinguished Professors
• 582. Institute of Global Ethics
• 583. Nature of Engineering course; Correspondence; Miscellaneous

Box 13 (Pletta)

Folder

• 584. Mechanics and Notes
• 585. Articles & Reports on Education, Ethics, and Professionalism
• 586. Beam Notes
• 587. Direct Magazine/Consulting
• 588. Dresser Ideco Company/Guyed Towers
• 589.Ferguson - Cinder Blocks
• 590. Consulting/Joan Gibson, Moustafa Gadalla
• 591. Extras
• 592. Harper Engine
• 593. Tapps Store Building - Columbia, SC
• 594. Naval Missile Center - Centrifuge Report
• 595. Liberty Mutual Insurance
• 596. Reynolds Metals - Bumper; notable letterhead from Richmond Engineering Company
• 597. Beam Failure
• 598. Naval Missile Center - Centrifuge - Point Mugu, California (1)
• 599. Naval Missile Center - Centrifuge - Point Mugu, California (2)
• 599A. Point Mugu Correspondence
• 600. Smelting Company, - Norfolk, Virginia/Concrete Tanks
• 601. Bar Joists/Long Span/Open Web Joists (Virginia Steel Company)
• 602. Figures - Chapters 1,2,7
• 603. Owen's Building - Wind Analysis
• 604. Ultimate Flexural Strength of Reinforced Concrete/Plasticity
• 605. Moment Distribution/U.S.M.A. Notes
• 606. Miscellaneous Correspondence
• 607. Miscellaneous Correspondence
• 608. Proceedings of the Workshop on Developing Guidelines for Recognition of Professional Schools of Engineering
• 609. How to Balance the Pros and Cons of Technology
• 610. Chinese Education, Correspondence, and Cards
• 611. China, Correspondence
• 612. Chinese Education
• 613. China, Postcards, Brochures, Orville Schell New Yorker article (1984)
• 614. Volume One
• 615. Professionalism and Ethics (Volume 2)
• 616. Engineering Science Mechanics, Materials Testing Laboratory Manual
• 617. Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Administration & Regulations

Box 14 (Pletta)

Folder

• 618. ASCE Committee on Society Objectives Planning and Organization (COSOPO), 1970-72
• 619. ASCE - PAC & CSPO - 1971
• 620. Lobbying - Highway Trucks - Covers to 1982
• 621. Professional Programs
• 622.Papers on "Dependence of Technological Progress on Industrial Development & Professional Advocacy"
• 623. Articles and Notes
• 624. News Item - Six-year degree
• 625. ASEE Outstanding Engineering Educators - April 4-6, 1993, Nashville - SE Section Meeting
• 626. Lox Storage Tanks
• 627. Professional Activities Committee, 1969-72
• 628. Foreign Contacts
• 629. Professional Obligations
• 630. University Club Housing and Building Committee
• 631. University Club Renovation
• 632. University Club - Miscellaneous & Correspondence
• 633. University Club Fund Raising
• 634. India
• 635. President's Symposium: Ethics and the Professions
• 636. Applied Mechanics
• 637. EM 511 - Non Planar Rings
• 638. "The Professional Need to Guide Technology"
• 639. University of Texas, Civil Engineering Education Conferences, 1994 and 1995
• 640. Miscellaneous Articles, Correspondence, Notes
• 641. Miscellaneous Articles, Correspondence, Notes
• 642. Report on the Failure of the Tool Joints for William T. Burton Industries
• 643. Virginia Steel Company, Open Web Joists
• 644. Virginia Steel Company
• 645. Virginia Steel Company, Long Span Open Web Joists
• 646. WAFCO, Inc., Multicellular Tetrahedral Bar
• 647. Revision of The Engineering Profession, Charles H. Samson
• 648. Tall Tales of Blacksburg
• 649. The Engineer's Expanding Destiny
• 650.Volume Three
• 651. Volume Four, Engineering Education at Virginia Tech
• 652. Nature of Engineering Course, Spring 1980
• 653. Illinois Institute of Technology Pamphlets on Ethics
• 654. Interdisciplinary Safeguards and Professional Unity, Michael Duncan, Correspondence
• 655. National Institute of Engineering Ethics, Engineering Ethics Update
• 656. Professional Engineering Unity
• 657. Six-year Practice-Oriented Degree
• 658. Film - "Ethics on Trial," 1991-92; Worldwatch Seminar
• 659. ASCE
• 660. Virginia Commission on Government Accountability and Ethics
• 661. Slide Notes

Box 15 (Pletta)

Folder

• Glass Slides: General Motors Photographic Department
• Slides (2 boxes): history of engineering, unity, landmarks of places traveled; construction sites, misc.
• Videotapes: "Ethics on Trial" (part 1 and 2); Whistleblowing and the APO
• Instruments: slide rule, circular measuring tool, pressure converter

Box 16 (Pletta)

Folder

• Certificates and Awards

Part 1 (Boxes 1-5) - Part 2 (Boxes 6-10 - Part 3 (Boxes 11-16)

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