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American engineer (1930–2020)

Charles O. Velzy (March 17, 1930 – December 11, 2020) was an American mechanical and consulting engineer, and business executive at Charles R. Velzy Associates, Inc. and later Charles O. Velzy, P.E. He is known as the 108th presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1989-1990.

Biography

Charles O. Velzy was born in Oak Park, Illinois on March 17, 1930. He took his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he obtained his BSc in civil engineering in 1953, and his MSc in sanitary engineering in 1959.

Valzy started his career at the engineering services company Nussbaumer, Clarke & Velzy as Senior Design Engineer from Senior Design Engineer in 1957, and was Project Engineer from 1959 to 1966. From 1966 to 1976 he was Secretary Treasurer of the Charles R. Velzy Associates, Inc., and president from 1976 to 1987. From 1987 to 1992 he served as Vice president of the Roy F. Weston Inc., and since 1992 he is private consultant and president of Charles O. Velzy, P.E., operation from in White Haven, Pennsylvania. He is working as consultant in the field of waste treatment and disposal.

In the year 1989-1990 Valzy served as the 108th presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Valzy died on December 11, 2020, at the age of 90.

Selected publications

Velzy, Charles O. The enigma of incinerator design, 1968.

Articles, a selection

Velzy, Charles O. "30 years of refuse-fired boiler experience." Resource Recovery and Conservation 4.1 (1979): 83-98.
Velzy, Charles O. "ASME standard sampling and analysis methods for dioxins/furans." Chemosphere 15.9-12 (1986): 1179-1185.
Velzy, Charles O., J. Feldman, and M. Trichon. "Incineration technology for managing biomedical wastes." Waste Management & Research 8.4 (1990): 293-298.
Velzy, Charles O., and Leonard M. Grillo. "Waste-to-energy combustion." Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA (2007).

References

^ John Varrasi, "Past President Played Role in Key Environmental Study," at asme.org, June 2013. Accessed 2017-09-22.
^ Louann Chaudier, Jan W. Churchwell. Who's who in Technology Today: Mechanical, civil and earth science technologies. J. Dick, 1982. p. 489
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1997), Results of the Peer Review for Fiscal Year. p. 255
United States. Supreme Court (2007), Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007). p. 250
"Charles O. Velzy". Donovan Funeral Home. Retrieved 25 December 2023.

External links

Video: Past President Charles O. Velzy and the Dioxin Study

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1900–1919	Charles H. Morgan (1900–1901) Samuel T. Wellman (1901–1902) Edwin Reynolds (1902–1903) James M. Dodge (1903–1904) Ambrose Swasey (1904–1905) John R. Freeman (1905–1906) Frederick W. Taylor (1906–1907) Frederick R. Hutton (1907–1908) Minard L. Holman (1908–1909) Jesse M. Smith (1909–1910) George Westinghouse (1910–1911) Edward D. Meier (1911–1912) Alexander C. Humphreys (1912–1913) William F. M. Goss (1913–1914) James Hartness (1914–1915) John Brashear (1915–1916) David S. Jacobus (1916–1917) Ira N. Hollis (1917–1918) Charles T. Main (1918–1919) Mortimer E. Cooley (1919–1920)
1920–1939	Fred J. Miller (1920–1921) Edwin S. Carman (1921–1922) Dexter S. Kimball (1922–1923) John L. Harrington (1923–1924) Fred R. Low (1924–1925) William F. Durand (1925–1926) William L. Abbott (1926–1927) Charles M. Schwab (1927–1928) Alex Dow (1928–1929) Elmer A. Sperry (1929–1930) Charles Piez (1930–1931) Roy V. Wright (1931–1932) Conrad N. Lauer (1932–1933) A. A. Potter (1933–1934) Paul Doty (1934–1935) Ralph E. Flanders (1935–1936) William L. Batt (1936–1937) James H. Herron (1937–1938) Harvey N. Davis (1938–1939) Alexander G. Christie (1939–1940)
1940–1959	Warren H. McBryde (1940–1941) William A. Hanley (1941–1942) James W. Parker (1942–1943) Harold V. Coes (1943–1944) Robert M. Gates (1944–1945) Alex D. Bailey (1945–1946) David R. Yarnall (1946–1947) Eugene W. O'Brien (1947–1948) Ervin G. Bailey (1948–1949) James M. Todd (1949–1950) James D. Cunningham (1950–1951) J. Calvin Brown (1951–1952) Reginald J. Pigott (1952–1953) Frederick S. Blackall Jr. (1953–1954) Lewis K. Sillcox (1954–1955) David W. Morgan (1955–1956) Joseph W. Barker (1956–1957) William F. Ryan (1957–1958) James N. Landis (1958–1959) Glenn B. Warren (1959–1960)
1960–1979	Walker L. Cisler (1960–1961) William H. Bryne (1961–1962) Clifford H. Shumaker (1962–1963) Ronald B. Smith (1963–1964) Elmer O. Bergman (1964–1965) Henry N. Muller (1965–1966) James H. Harlow (1966–1967) Louis N. Rowley Jr. (1967–1968) George F. Habach (1968–1969) Donald E. Marlowe (1969–1970) Allen F. Rhodes (1970–1971) Kenneth A. Roe (1971–1972) Richard G. Folsom (1972–1973) Daniel C. Drucker (1973–1974) Richard B. Robertson (1974–1975) Charles L. Tutt III (1975–1976) Earle C. Miller (1976–1977) Stothe P. Kezios (1977–1978) Orval L. Lewis (1978–1979) Donald N. Zwiep (1979–1980)
1980–1999	Charles E. Jones (1980–1981) Robert B. Gaither (1981–1982) Serge Gratch (1982–1983) Frank M. Scott (1983–1984) George Kotnick (1984–1985) Leroy S. Fletcher (1985–1986) Nancy D. Fitzroy (1986–1987) Richard Rosenberg (1987–1988) Ernest L. Daman (1988–1989) Charles O. Velzy (1989–1990) Arthur E. Bergles (1990–1991) Nathan H. Hurt (1991–1992) Joseph A. Falcon (1992–1993) John H. Fernandes (1993–1994) Paul J. Torpey (1994–1995) Daniel T. Koenig (1995–1996) Richard J. Goldstein (1996–1997) Keith B. Thayer (1997–1998) Winfred M. Phillips (1998–1999) Robert E. Nickell (1999–2000)
2000–2019	John R. Parker (2000–2001) William A. Weiblen (2001–2002) Susan H. Skemp (2002–2003) Reginald I. Vachon (2003–2004) Harry Armen (2004–2005) Richard E. Feigel (2005–2006) Terry E. Shoup (2006–2007) Sam Y. Zamrik (2007–2008) Thomas M. Barlow (2008–2009) Amos E. Holt (2009–2010) Robert T. Simmons (2010–2011) Victoria Rockwell (2011–2012) Marc Goldsmith (2012–2013) Madiha Kotb (2013–2014) J. Robert Sims (2014–2015) Julio C. Guerrero (2015–2016) K. Keith Roe (2016–2017) Charla K. Wise (2017–2018) Said Jahanmir (2018–2019) Richard Laudenat (2019–2020)
2020–present	Bryan A. Erler (2020–2021) Mahantesh Hiremath (2021–2022) Karen Ohland (2022-2023) Thomas R. Kurfess (2023–2024) Susan Ipri-Brown (2024–2025)

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