Constantin Avram, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian engineer
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Place of Birth: Ciumași, Bacău County, Romania
About Constantin Avram
- Constantin Avram (February 19, 1911 – February 20, 1987) was a Romanian structural engineer. Born in Ciuma?i, Bacau County, his parents Nicolai and Maria were peasants; in addition, his father was a mechanic for Caile Ferate Române.
- The couple worked hard for their children's education; their four sons all earned university degrees, with three becoming structural engineers and the fourth a chemical engineer.
- Constantin attended Ferdinand I High School in Bacau from 1923 to 1930.
- He then enrolled in the military engineers officers' school in Bucharest, graduating first in his class in 1932 and becoming a second lieutenant in the Romanian Army.
- After a yearlong internship, he was sent on a government scholarship to the École militaire et d'application du génie de Versailles.
- Upon his return home, he attended the construction faculty of the Bucharest Polytechnic School.
- In 1940, he graduated first in his class and earned a degree as a structural engineer.
- He married Emilia Petrescu in 1939.In October 1940, he became a teaching assistant at the Polytechnic's reinforced concrete building department.
- In February 1948, following the onset of the communist regime, he was transferred as a full professor to the construction faculty of the Polytechnic University of Timi?oara.
- There, his teaching focused on reinforced concrete until his retirement in 1975.
- Other fields he taught included reinforced concrete bridges; statics (1948-1950); material resistance and the theory of elasticity (1948-1953); statics and dynamics of construction (1960-1963).
- He helped set up a construction faculty at the Cluj Polytechnic Institute, where he taught reinforced concrete from 1954 to 1959, commuting between Timi?oara and Cluj.
- He became a doctoral adviser in 1952, guiding dozens of students through the process.He wrote a number of textbooks in his field, and, either alone or in collaboration, authored some 110 scientific publications.
- He was chairman of the reinforced concrete and building department from 1953 to 1975, and rector at Timi?oara from 1963 to 1971.
- In 1963, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
- In his limited spare time, he read classic literature and was a passionate supporter of Poli Timi?oara football team.
- He died in 1987.
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