The University of Oklahoma’s historic structural engineering laboratory was made possible because of a generous donation from Donald G. Fears. The visionary OU structural engineering professor Tom Murray used this donation to begin the construction of the first research facility on what is now OU’s South Research Campus. Murray and his colleagues gathered donations of brick and steel from companies such as Acme Brick and Star Metal Buildings, and eventually assembled all the ingredients that make up this laboratory.
The visionary OU structural engineering professor Tom Murray used this donation to begin the construction of the first research facility on what is now OU’s South Research Campus. Murray and his colleagues gathered donations of brick and steel from companies such as Acme Brick and Star Metal Buildings, and eventually assembled all the ingredients that make up this laboratory.
Fears Lab now hosts structural engineering and structural mechanics research efforts at the University of Oklahoma, as well as some geotechnical engineering faculty and staff.
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