Fulltime: 1943-1944
Sc.D. 1937, Mathematics, University of Geneva
M.S. ____, Mathematics, University of Paris (Sorbonne)
License 1935, Mathematics, University of Geneva
Dec. 4, 1942: A meeting of the MAA Missouri Section was held in the Kansas City Continental Hotel, at which Beer gave a talk titled "A two-dimensional representation of vectors and scalars". This was the last such meeting until 1948.
After UKC: 1947-1983, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh University Distinguished Faculty Bio Selected excerpts: "Ferdinand P. Beer, a native of Binic, France, joined the Lehigh faculty in 1947 and was appointed the first chairman of the new department of mechanics in 1957. His three best-selling textbooks ... have been translated into a dozen languages... are still used in many engineering classrooms around the world... Beer received his "license" in mathematics at the University of Geneva in 1935 as well as his Ph.D. in 1937. He held a master's degree from the University of Paris, and did post-graduate work at Brown University. In addition...Beer wrote a textbook (in French) on calculus ... Beer chaired the mechanics department until it was merged with the mechanical engineering department in 1968. From 1968 to 1977, he served as chairman of the new mechanical engineering and mechanics department... In 1971, Beer received Lehigh's R.R. and E.C. Hillman Award for "advancing the interests of the university," and in 1983, he earned the engineering college's Service Teaching Excellence Award. In 1974, the Middle Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) gave Beer the Western Electric Fund Award for excellence in the teaching of engineering students. In 1980, Beer received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of the Science Society."
Ferdinand P. Beer