Frank J. Lockhart papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 5132

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The four boxes comprising these papers include notes, outlines, and syllabi for chemical engineering courses (1951); records on the Edgington Oil Company lawsuit (1970s); Humble Oil and Refining Company data files and correspondence; data logs for Mobil Oil and Fluor Corporation (1940s); two boxes of instructional transparencies (for overhead projectors) on the art and science of plant design; two trays and a box of slides; a report submitted to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District called Engineering Study of the Effect of the Coyote Creek-North Fork Flood Control Channel on the Wilshire Oil Company of California, Santa Fe Springs Refinery (1961); and other reports and articles related to Lockhart's role as a consulting engineer.

Dates

Creation: 1940s-1970s

Creator

Lockhart, Frank J., 1916-2002 (Person)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical Note

Frank J. Lockhart, a longtime member of USC's chemical engineering department, began his career in the early 1940s after receiving his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. He worked for Humble Oil and Refining Company, Union Oil Company, and Fluor Corporation before becoming a member of USC's faculty in 1946. He chaired the School of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering fom 1956 to 1969, during which time he received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the School of Engineering and the Engineering Alumni Association for his activities in creating the USC Air Pollution Institute, a program triggered by the passage of the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1963. Lockhart worked with the Schools of Public Administration, Engineering, and the USC Allan Hancock Foundation to create the new institute.

Throughout his long and distinguished career, Lockhart served as a consultant to a number of oil companies and engineering contractors. As a consultant to a UNESCO project in the mid-1970s, Lockhart assisted in the upgrade of graduate chemical engineering courses at three universities in Venezuela.

Among Lockhart's research interests were the design process of chemical plants, including the strategy of design and the interface between the engineer and computerized air pollution controls; mass transfer, including distillation, gas absorption and liquid extraction; and the physical properties of liquids, including predictive corrlation for thermal conductivity, viscosity, and density.

Frank Lockhart retired from USC in 1987, and passed away in 2002 at age 86.