Alexander Graham Christie

Alexander Graham Christie (November 19, 1880 – October 24, 1964) was a Canadian/American mechanical engineer and Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, who served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1939–40.

Biography Youth, education and early career Christie was born in Manchester, Ontario, Canada to Peter Christie and Mary Honor (Graham) Christie. He obtained his MSc in mechanical engineering at the School of Practical Science at the University of Toronto in 1901. and associate professor of Steam and Gas Engineering by 1914. In 1914 he moved to the Johns Hopkins University, where he became associate professor, and later Professor of Engineering until his retirement in 1948, and director of the McCoy College until 1953. The American Society for Engineering Education awarded Christie the Lamme Gold Medal in 1948, and the first George Westinghouse Gold Medal for engineering by the ASME in 1953. At the Johns Hopkins Whiting school of Engineer an annual lecture is held on his behalf, the Alexander Graham Christie Lecture.

Selected publications Alexander Graham Christie, Otto Louis Kowalke. Steam and gas engineering laboratory notes, 1912. Alexander Graham Christie, What does an engineer do? New York, Wantage Press, 1963.