Heat Transfer Engineering, 36(1):134, 2015
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ISSN: 0145-7632 print / 1521-0537 online
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2014.923238

in memoriam

Dr. Arthur E. Bergles, 1935–2014
Art Bergles - one of the early editors of Heat Transfer Engineering, and a major contributor to its pages- passed away
on March 17, 2014. Art was a practitioner and exemplar of thefull spectrum of activities and responsibilities encountered in
the Technology Academe and in the application of those skillsin the real world of engineering. And so many of us rememberhim as a close friend and mentor.
Born in New York City and raised in Rhinebeck, New York,he started his education in a one-room schoolhouse and graduated as valedictorian (and Eagle Scout) from high school in
the Rhinebeck Central School System. Entering MIT in 1953,
he stayed for 16 years, earning his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, spending a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical
University in Munich, Germany, and serving as an AssistantProfessor for several years. And there he met Priscilla (Penny)
Maule, a student at Boston University, who became his wife andtravelling companion.
Art moved to Georgia Institute of Technology as Professor,
and then to Iowa State University as Chair of the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering and Anson-Marston Distinguished
Professor of Engineering. He also received an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellowship and spent a year at the University of Hannover. He capped his academic career as Dean of Engineeringand Clark-Crossan Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Institute of Technology. Along the way, Art produced over 400
papers, 26 books, and over 400 invited lectures. Upon retirement, Art took Emeritus status at Rensselaer, Senior Lecturer
at MIT, and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor at the University of Maryland- one must say, a rather unorthodox example of“retirement”!
While Art researched, lectured, and published over every
aspect of heat transfer science and art, he is probably best
known to the readers of this journal for his work on heat transfer
enhancement- all the devious schemes by which the engineer
can make a heat exchanger transfer more heat for little or no cost.
But there is more: Art was active in several professionalsocieties, including ASME, where he served as President
1990–1991, AIChE, ASEE, and ASHRAE. He was elected tothe National Academy of Engineering in 1992 and as a foreign
member of the English Royal Society of Mechanical Engineers
in 2000. Among his many other honors, domestic and foreign,
were the Max Jakob and Donald Q. Kern Awards specifically inthe field of heat transfer.
Art was passionate about education and committed to supporting the careers of young scientists, advising 82 thesis students. The Bergles Professorship was established through anendowment by Art and Penny Bergles with the intent of attracting or retaining an outstanding senior faculty member inthe thermal sciences at Iowa State University. The Dr. ArthurE. Bergles Scholarship was established in 1996 with gifts fromfriends, faculty, colleagues, and corporations upon the occasion of his retirement from Rensselaer. The Bergles-Rohsenow
Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer is presented annually through ASME. Art also volunteered his time to serve on
numerous fellowship and award selection committees.
If this note were limited to the specifics of Art’s professional
career, it would be an incomplete report on Art’s life. I can attest
to the fact that Art was a wide-ranging and fun-loving guy, andthose who had the opportunity to travel with him and Penny
will have instant memories of one or another special occasion.
These memories are our reward for having had the opportunity
to share a path with Art.

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Ken Bell