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เนื้อหาย่อ : publishers of the books written by Ferd Beer and Russ Johnston, we often asked how did they happen to write the books together, with f them at Lehigh and the other at the University of Connecticut. The answer to this question is simple. Russ Johnston's first teach- appointment was in the Department of Civil Engineering and anics at Lehigh University. There he met Ferd Beer, who had that department two years earlier and was in charge of the courses mechanics. Born in France and educated in France and Switzerland held an M.S. degree from the Sorbonne and an Sc.D. degree in the of theoretical mechanics from the University of Geneva), Ferd had to the United States after serving in the French army during the part of World War II and had taught for four years at Williams ge in the Williams-MIT joint arts and engineering program. Born delphia, Russ had obtained a B.S. degree in civil engineering University of Delaware and an Sc.D. degree in the field of engineering from MIT. Ferd was delighted to discover that the young man who had been chiefly to teach graduate structural engineering courses was not illing but eager to help him reorganize the mechanics courses. lieved that these courses should be taught from a few basic prin- d that the various concepts involved would be best understood mbered by the students if they were presented to them in a way. Together they wrote lecture notes in statics and dynam- hich they later added problems they felt would appeal to fu- gineers, and soon they produced the manuscript of the first edi- Mechanics for Engineers. The second edition of Mechanics for and the first edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers found Jobnston at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the next editions Uaiversity of Connecticut. In the meantime, both Ferd and Russ ed administrative responsibilities in their departments, and involved in research, consulting, and supervising graduate Ferd in the area of stochastic processes and random vibra- Russ in the area of elastic stability and structural analysis m. However, their interest in improving the teaching of the echanics courses had not subsided, and they both taught of these courses as they kept revising their texts and began