Albert Beardsley Jessup originally intended to pursue a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh, yet got involved with mining engineering. He graduated second in his class in 1895 with a B.S. degree in mining. After graduating, he went on to work for the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. and was later promoted to assistant mechanical engineer and oversaw an entire array of engineering projects affiliated with the company, based in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Mansfield Merriman was a prominent civil engineer, as well as a civil engineering professor at Lehigh University. He is especially well known for his studies in hydraulics having established the first hydraulics laboratory at an academic institution (Lehigh University) in the United States. He and his students studied water flow especially the hydraulic jump. The water source was a stream that came down the north face of the Lehigh Mountain in the vicinity of Williams Hall. The actual laboratory building was located in the vicinity of what is now occupied by Chandler-Ullmann building and Fritz Laboratory. Professor Merriman also consulted on the Manhattan Bridge as well as authored many engineering books and many engineering projects.