In Memory of Bernhard Stahl ’63, MS’64
Bernhard “Bernie” Stahl passed away peacefully January 28, 2026, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, surrounded by his family at the age of 86.
Bernie was born in 1940, in Vilnius, Lithuania. At age 12, he moved with his family to the U.S., eventually settling in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended UW–Madison where he met his future wife, Karen Nyholm, and graduated with a BS in civil engineering in January 1963 and a master’s degree in civil engineering n 1964. After graduating, Bernie and Karen married and moved to Long Beach, California, where Bernie worked at Douglas Aircraft. Bernie returned to school for more graduate studies earning a PhD in structural mechanics at Northwestern University. He spent the remainder of his career in the oil and gas industry, as a research engineer with Amoco Production Company, primarily in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later Houston, Texas. As part of Amoco’s Offshore Technology group, he designed offshore drilling platforms in the North Sea, with a focus on structural safety and risk management. He frequently collaborated with engineering colleagues at major academic institutions and published numerous scientific papers. He was widely recognized as an expert in his field and received several international awards during his career.
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