Career
In 1922, Soderberg started at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. In 1928, Soderberg accepted an offer from ASEA to return to Sweden and head the development of a new line of large turbogenerators. In 1930, he returned to Westinghouse, where he was assigned to the Power Engineering Department.
In 1938, Soderberg was offered a faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. In 1954 Soderberg was appointed dean of the School of Engineering. He resigned as dean in 1959 and was appointed to the position of Institute Professor. Soderberg had a total of eighteen U.S. patents issued in the years from 1935 to 1950, all relating to constructional features of turbines.
Soderberg was a member of many professional societies. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1947 and to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 1958 he was made a knight of the Order of the Polar Star by the King of Sweden and in 1968 a commander of the Royal Order of the North Star.
On the occasion of Soderberg’s eightieth birthday in 1975, MIT announced the establishment of the Carl Richard Soderberg Professorship of Power Engineering.
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