With Frank Crowe as the chief engineer, the MK UC partnership successfully built dams throughout the American west.
The society was founded in the fall of 2000 by Dean Larryl Matthews and named in honor of Francis T. Crowe, a Civil Engineer of the University's class of 1905 who designed 19 of the 'super-dams' in the Western United States that made farming possible in the Great Basin, the California Central Valley, Central Arizona and the Imperial Valley.
Crowe became interested in the American west during a lecture from Frank Weymouth, a guest speaker from the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
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The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.
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Morrison-Knudsen had recently signed a partnership with the larger Utah Construction Company to build dams.
With Frank Crowe as the chief engineer, the MK-UC partnership successfully built dams throughout the American west.
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