About Robert L. Ketter
Lived 1929 – 1989 (aged 59–60). Robert L. Ketter was a civil engineer and engineer.
Robert L. Ketter (1929–1989) was an authority on earthquake engineering research and a former president of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB).
A graduate of Lehigh University, Ketter went to the University of Buffalo to inaugurate and head the school's Department of Civil Engineering in 1958. He went on to become the dean of UB's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS)
In 1981, Ketter retired as UB president
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American civil engineer
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Robert L. Ketter was born in 1929.
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Robert L. Ketter died in 1989.
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Robert L. Ketter was a civil engineer and engineer.
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