Daniel Webster Mead (March 6, 1862 – October 13, 1948) was an American engineering consultant and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[1] Mead was born in Fulton, Oswego County, New York in 1862 and grew up in Rockford, Illinois.
He moved his consulting practice to Madison, Wisconsin, where it grew into the engineering firm Mead & Hunt.
President Calvin Coolidge appointed Mead to the Colorado River Board commission to study the Hoover Dam project in 1928.
He later became president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1936,[4] which recognizes him in the annual Daniel W. Mead essay contest.