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Robert B. Balter was the laboratory assistant to Arthur Casagrande and Karl Terzaghi (the founding fathers of soil mechanics) while obtaining his Masters Degree in soils mechanics at Harvard University. Hired as a civil engineer with the J.E. Greiner Company (now URS Corporation). Mr. Balter introduced soils mechanics to the firm and almost immediately established their first soils/geotechnical engineering department. In 1954, Mr.