Charles Ezra Greene (1842–1903) was an American civil engineer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1863, served as quartermaster during the last two years of the Civil War, and was United States assistant engineer from 1870 to 1872, when, for part of a year, he was city engineer of Bangor, Maine. In the same year he became connected with the engineering department of the University of Michigan. In 1895, he became the first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, a position he held until his death. He was an associate editor of the Engineering News from 1876 - 1877. his publications include: Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses (1876) Trusses and Arches: Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders (three volumes, 1876–79; third edition, 1903) Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering (1891) Structural Mechanics (1897; second edition, 1905) See also References 1842 births 1903 deaths American engineering writers American civil engineers Harvard College alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni People from Boston Union Army officers University of Michigan faculty Quartermasters Military personnel from Massachusetts