Olszak, Waclaw

ENCAENIA, MAY, 1975
WACLAW OLSZAK
to be Doctor of Science

A visit to Canada, in his capacity as Honorary President of the Fifth Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics to be held on this campus of UNB later in the month, provides us with an opportunity to honour this distinguished European engineer and scholar. Dr. Olszak has made outstanding contributions to the development of Engineering Sciences and Solid Mechanics, many of which have had considerable applicability to Canadian engineering problems. Equally outstanding have been his strenuous efforts to foster international scientific cooperation and to promote the world-wide exchange of scientific information in the field of mechanics, so necessary as our physical world contracts and our technological world expands.

Dr. Olszak has held eminent scientific posts in his native Poland -- at Warsaw Technical University and at the Polish Academy of Science, where in 1963 he was named Director of the Institute of Fundamental Engineering Research. He has received many prizes for his bridges and engineering structures and has been honoured many times in Poland, and by Universities and Academies of Science throughout Europe -- Belgrade, Budapest, Paris, Vienna, and Toulouse to cite only a few. Since 1969 he has been Rector of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine, Italy, testimony in itself of the universally high regard in which he is held by his international colleagues.

Engineering savant, teacher extraordinaire, builder of bridges both physical and human, UNB honours a special friend of Canada and of Canadian scientists and engineers.

Praeses admittit Waclaw Olszak honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia.

From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2