Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch includes a nice B1 feature on Nelson O. Weber, ME'62. Weber, who retired as a mechanical engineer from McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, is putting his engineering skills back to work surveying the wreckage of the steamboat Montana, one of the largest paddlewheel steamboats to ply the Missouri River.
Last year, the Missouri was so low that Weber was able to map out nearly the entire width of the ship. The parts that still lay buried in the water and mud, he probed with a bamboo pole. Weber took measurements, drew diagrams, and even got his cousin to fly a small plane over the wreckage so he could take pictures.
Read more about Weber's work here.
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