Stephen N Rudnick

I had a random inkling to Google Dr. Rudnick to see how he was doing. I am so sad to learn that he has passed. I took Dr. Rudnick's Noise and Vibration course pass/fail. I remember once telling him that I was taking it pass/fail after scoring poorly on an assignment. His comment to me was SO funny.."You know that you can still fail!" LOOOOL. I went on to "pass" the course and served as his TA the following year. I loved following him to his office after class and talking his head off about...

I met Steve when I rushed the AEPi fraternity at WPI in 1962. Steve was an upper class man who matriculated a year earlier. As such, we did not spend much time together beyond fraternity meals. Fifty years later Steve and Janet were planning to move to California to live in a cohousing community after Steve retired from Harvard. I first met them when they attended the national cohousing convention in 2012, searching for a cohousing community that met their needs. Steve & I didn't...

Dear Janet, and family, I just learnt about Steve´s passing, and wanted to send you a big hug. Steve was my professor of ventilation at Harvard. Even if I was not the brightest student in his classes, he was always very encouraging and caring. I loved his kind, loving personality and his sense of humor. And the fact that he would always bike to School, no matter what the weather was.. He even invited me once, with a few other foreign students, for Thanksgiving to his home. He was always so...

Janet, Howard Sherry called me on Wednesday to tell me of Steve's passing. We had known that he wasn't doing well recently, but it was still a shock to hear the sad news. Sylvia and I send our condolences to you and to the rest of the family. He will be missed. I look back at our years together at WPI and then at Penn. Together with our fraternity brothers Greg Barry and Norm Dwartz, we shared an apartment on Lincoln Street during our junior and senior years at WPI, and then with Howard,...

Dr Rudnick taught me everything I know about ventilation, noise, and so much more. As important as what he taught is how he taught - with kindness, patience and respect. I model this today with my own students. I am so grateful to have been taught by Prof. Rudnick. Wishing family and friends peace. May his memory continue on.

As students together at Harvard Steve and I had the same faculty advisor; after graduation we both stayed on and worked together for many years. As a scientist and engineer, Steve was first rate; he sought to understand difficult issues at the most fundamental level and if he said something was true, you could depend on it. We became good friends, the kind of friend you could always rely on. He was fun to be with and had a great sense of humor. Steve and I played squash together at least...

Marlene and I just heard the sad news - really sorry to have missed the service today. Steve and I were doctoral students together at the Harvard School of Public Health in the late 1970s. A few memories - we spent many many days and nights running experiments in the pilot plant, located way below ground. We would let off steam on the squash court - a sport that Steve attacked like everything else he did - full speed ahead, so keep your head up. Steve was brilliant, funny, dedicated to the ...

I had the privilege of knowing, and teaching with Steve Rudnick for almost 25 years. Steve´s approach was unapologetically old school: problem sets, lab reports, quizzes and final exams. His courses were demanding and rigorous, but Steve´s kindness and willingness to help the students tempered their experience. I recall one student´s course evaluation which said (something like) "I never worked so hard in my life for 2.5 credits, but I never learned so much!" So a big part of Steve´s legacy...