{"id":765,"date":"2013-05-01T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=765"},"modified":"2017-04-17T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:04:35","slug":"benefield-larry-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"BENEFIELD, LARRY D., 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer; University professor of engineering. Born&#8211; October 15, 1942, \u00a0 Roanoke. Married&#8211;Mary.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1966;\u00a0M.S., 1972; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D., 1975. Served as an officer\/combat engineer\u00a0in the U. S. Air Force in Vietnam, 1966-71. \u00a0Awarded the Bronze Star for his service. \u00a0Taught at Mississippi State University, 1975-76; at the University of Colorado, 1976-79; at\u00a0Auburn University, 1979-2012.\u00a0Dean of the College of Engineering, 2000-2012.\u00a0 Author of more than one hundred publications.\u00a0 Received awards as outstanding alumnus at VPI and Auburn (2012).\u00a0 Named to State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame, 2013.\u00a0\u00a0Named Dean Emeritus on his retirement at Auburn in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Auburn University website; Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame website..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biological Process Design for Wastewater Treatment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Process Chemistry for Water and Wastewater Treatment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Sensitivity Analysis for an Activated Sludge Model Which Considers Toxicant Concentration. Auburn, Ala.; Water Resources Research Institute, Auburn University, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment Plant Hydrolics for Environmental Engineers. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Engineer; University professor of engineering. Born&#8211; October 15, 1942, \u00a0 Roanoke. Married&#8211;Mary.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; Auburn University, B.S., 1966;\u00a0M.S., 1972; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D., 1975. Served as an officer\/combat engineer\u00a0in the U. S. Air Force in Vietnam, 1966-71. \u00a0Awarded the Bronze Star for his service. \u00a0Taught at Mississippi State University, 1975-76; at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}