Overview of the Collection
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
MG349
Samuel S.M. Chan, 1934-
Samuel S.M. Chan Papers
1962-1988
1 cubic foot
Charts, graphs, and articles authored by Samuel S.M. Chan, University of Idaho professor of metallurgical enginering, 1962-1989; photographs and other material, especially correspondence concerning the career of Wlodzimierz Rymon-Lipinski.
English
Samuel S.M. Chan was born in Hainan Island, China on June 11, 1934. He received his B.S. degree in mining and metallurgical engineering from Cheng Kung University in China in 1957. He then attended the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in Rolla, where he received his M.S. in 1960. He came to the University of Idaho as a student and teaching assistant in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. in Geology in 1966. He remained at the University of Idaho where he taught courses and conducted research in mining engineering until his retirement in 1989 as Professor of Mining Engineering. His professional specialities include rock mechanics and geophysics. He has many publications and scholarly papers to his credit and has been a consultant for American Zinc Lead & Smelting Co., Vanguard Exploration Company, and El Paso Natural Gas Company. He is a member of the International Society for Rock Mechanics.
The papers were in no order when received. Due to the diversity of the papers and the fact than most material was unfoldered with little or no identification, all material was placed in one alphabetical sequence. The charts and graphs section also contains FORTRAN coding sheets and other calculations. Only a few of the many articles authored by Dr. Chan are in this collection. The photographs include a set of illustrations for an unidentified thesis and one picture, presumed to be Dr. Chan, dating from the 1970s. The university material includes departmental memos, correspondence with asian graduate students planning to study mining at the UI, and correspondence concerning Polish professor Rymon-Lipinski's post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Idaho.
Books and other published material were sent to the subject librarians for review, and duplicates of mimeographed material were discarded. In this way the collection was reduced by one cubic foot.
The papers of Samuel Chan were donated to the University of Idaho Library in July 1990.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Idaho
Mines and Mineral Resources
Chan, Samuel S. M.--Archives.
Rymon-Lipinski, Wlodzimierz
Mining engineers -- Idaho -- Records and correspondence
Detailed Description of the Collection
1/1
Abstracts of articles by Samuel S.M. Chan
1970-1972
3 items
1/2
Calculations, Calady test shaft
1979
45 items
1/3
Calculations, Lucky Friday simplified circular shaft
1981
48 items
1/4-7
Charts and graphs
1979-1983
257 items
1/8
Charts and graphs, rock strain
1987-1988
48 items
1/9
Charts and graphs, shafts
undated
1 item
1/10
Charts and graphs, stress in concrete lining
undated
54 items
1/11
Charts and graphs, research for article "Interpretation of in-situ deformational behavior of a rectangular test shaft using the finite element method," by Samuel Chan and M.J. Beus
1977
113 items
1/12
Correspondence
1965-1988
16 items
1/13
Course evaluations
1986-1988
11 items
1/14
Figures for stress and displacement
undated
2 items
1/15
Lecture notes
January 27-31, 1964
4 items
1/16
Maps
ca. 1955
3 items
1/17
Mine Surveying 108, Student notebook
1966
1 item
1/18
Notebook of Samuel Chan for Geomechanics
undated
1 item
1/19
Pacific Northwest Mental and Minerals Conference
1969
8 items
1/20-21
Papers and articles by Samuel Chan
1969-1980
10 items
1/22
Photographs
ca. 1970-1976
14 items
1/23
Rock mechanics, paper and notes of William G. Parriseau
1968-1971
3 items
1/24
Russian language, Samuel Chan's notes
undated
6 items
1/25
Seminar examples
undated
7 items
1/26
Students' surveying notebooks
1965-1966
4 items
1/27
Student's paper
1986
1 item
1/28
Symposium on Engineering Geology
1971
8 items
1/29
Thesis of Samuel Chan
1962
1 item
1/30
Thesis of Scott Carlisle
1986
2 items
1/31
University and department related
1966-1988
22 items
1/32
University and department related, Oriental students
1978-1988
23 items
1/33
University and department related, Wlodzimierz Rymon-Lipinski
1980-1986
32 items
1/34
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Michigan, reports and maps
1972-1977
16 items