Mehta, Kishor 2022-03-22
This oral history interview focuses on Dr. Mehta’s graduate school experience at the University of Texas at Austin and raising a family while pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering. The interview details the joys and difficulties have having children with his wife, Mary Ann. It also discusses moving to Lubbock to take a professorship at Texas Tech University. This conversation includes comments and thoughts about his first years of teaching a developing a research program at the University.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Kishor Mehta
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: March 22, 2022
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Zachary Hernandez
Length: 01:23:53 (1 hour 23 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and the birth of his first son; applying to PhD programs; Living arrangements while getting a PhD; The birth of his second and third children; applying to a job at Texas Tech; Making life work in Austin; Teaching and finishing up his dissertation; Faculty advisors; finding a place to live in Lubbock and moving to Lubbock; Designing the structures lab; Stadium light accident of 1968; measuring structure strain from wind; Gauging wind loads and wrap up
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/374088 >
Related Interview: Mehta, Kishor 2022-03-03, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-03-09, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-03-16, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-03-30, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-04-06, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-04-20, and Mehta, Kishor 2022-05-04
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