Question: Where was the research university at which Kenneth S. M. Davidson was a Mechanical Engineering professor located? 
Context: Dr. Ramulu Mamidala (M. Ramulu) is a mechanical engineering professor at University of Washington .  Usually goes by the name 'Ram', or 'M. R.', he is recognized for his leadership and outstanding record in promoting collaborative education and research with industry.  He is currently the director of Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory (MSTL) at Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Washington.  He has designed and developed manufacturing methods for a wide range of systems, from the B2 bomber to the Boeing 787.  Additionally, in collaboration with industry, he established and directed two interdisciplinary graduate educational programs in engineering and management and a certificate program in composites tooling and manufacturing.  His exemplary collaborative efforts motivated working engineers to pursue doctoral studies and he is a leader in using emerging technologies in distance education to reach non-traditional students. Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.  The university also has a satellite location in Washington, D.C..  Incorporated in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States, and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanical engineering.  The campus encompasses Castle Point, the highest point in Hoboken, and several other buildings around the city. Kenneth S. M. Davidson was a Mechanical Engineering professor at Stevens Institute of Technology who helped create the Davidson Towing Tank at the institution.  In 1918 he served as a pilot in the Army Air Service.  Davidson was a sailor.  He raced in many boat races, one in 1935 to Norway, and the America’s Cup defender, the Ranger, in 1937. Kay Mortensen (July 6, 1939 - November 16, 2009) was a retired professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University who was murdered.  He was born to Sherman and Roxie Mortensen in Ephraim, Utah on July 6, 1939.  Kay graduated from Snow College, Utah State University, and finally from the University of Utah where he received a Ph.D. in Metallurgy.  Kay was a professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University for 37 years where he taught courses in manufacturing design, engineering technology, and mechanical engineering until his retirement.  Three weeks before his murder he was released from serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Provo, Utah Mission at Cove Fort, Utah (now part of the St. George, Utah Mission). Nimal Rajapakse is a Sri Lankan born academic who lives in Canada.  Currently a Professor of Engineering at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, he was the Vice-President (Research and International) of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  He was a department head and civil engineering professor of University of Manitoba from 1985 to 2000.  He served as department head and mechanical engineering professor of University of British Columbia, Canada.  He was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Simon Fraser University, Canada from 2009 to 2015. Dr. Namas Chandra (born April 17, 1952) is the Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology.  He held Elmer-Koch Professorship of Engineering and recent past Associate Dean for research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is the Director of $5.8 M UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics.  After about 8 years of work experience in Nuclear Industry, Dr. Chandra completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 at Texas A&M University.  From 1986 to 2006, he was at Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida State University.  In 2006, after about 20 years as a research professor, Dr. Chandra became the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at UNL.  He also served as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering Mechanics at College of Engineering in University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He finished his MS from University of Houston in 1983 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1986.  In 2005, he won FSU's 'Outstanding Researcher' award. Suhas V. Patankar (born February 22, 1941) is an Indian mechanical engineer.  He is a pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Finite volume method.  He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota.  He is also president of Innovative Research, Inc.  Patankar was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India.  Patankar received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune in 1962 and his Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1964.  In 1967 he received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Imperial College, University of London. Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis.  He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at WUSTL.  From 1994 to 1996, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering department at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.  From 1996 to 2001, he was the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and the executive director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University.  Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968.  Agarwal developed a third-order upwind scheme in 1981 for the numerical integration of Navier-Stokes equations. Robert James "Roy" Crawford {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} was a university administrator and mechanical engineering academic, whose primary research interest has been in the mechanical properties and processing behaviour of plastics.  From 1989 to 1999 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the School of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland.  He was also responsible for establishing the Polymer Processing Research Centre at Queens University.  This centre included the Research Group on rotational moulding of plastics, which he also established.  From 1999 to 2001 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Professor Mushtak Al-Atabi is a professor of mechanical engineering and currently the Provost and CEO of Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia.  His research interests include thermofluids, renewable energy, biomechanical engineering, engineering education and academic leadership.  He is an Honorary Chair at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Engineering Science & Technology.  Professor Al-Atabi has published three books, “Think Like an Engineer”, "Shoot the Boss", and “Driving Performance” and he has numerous research publications, awards and honours.  He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and a member of the executive committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council.
Answer: Hoboken, New Jersey