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Leonard SegelLeonard Segel, 89, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, died on 15 February 2012. The Funeral was held at Beth Israel Congregation, 2000 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 on Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 10:30 AM . Rabbi Robert Dobrusin officiated. Interment at Beth Israel Memorial Garden in Arborcrest Cemetery, 2521 Glazier Way, Ann Arbor MI 48105.
The family of Leonard Segel will be gathering through the afternoon of Sunday, February 19 at the residence of Carol Hoffer, 22 Haverhill, Ann Arbor MI 48105. Leonard Segel, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a leading specialist in the field of vehicle dynamics, died February 15 in Ann Arbor at the age of 89 of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 16, 1922, he served during the Second World War as a Lieutenant junior grade in the Navy, stationed at Jacksonville, Florida. He received his BS in aeronautical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1947 to 1966 he worked as a research engineer at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1967 as a research engineer at the Highway Safety Research Institute (later to become the Transportation Research Institute), where he headed the Physical Factors Division and developed it into an important center of research in the areas of automotive stability and control and the car/road interface. Professor Segel’s publications and lectures in this field brought him international recognition, resulting in numerous honors and invitations to speak, consult, and serve on industry and government task forces and commissions. As a visiting professor, he taught in Israel, China, Australia and Japan. He was married for 59 years to Sylvia Albert Segel, who died in 2004, and is survived by two daughters, Judith Benedict of Geneva, Switzerland, and Micki Segel of Brooklyn, New York, and by one son, Lawrence Segel of Boston, Massachusetts, as well as by three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, a sister Doris Gordon, and a brother Bernard Joseph Segel. It is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of Leonard Segel may do so by making a contribution to: University of Cincinnati School of EngineeringClick to Visit Charity Website |