| Charles Ezra Greene | |
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1842 |
| Birth Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death Date: | 1903 |
| Death Place: | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Harvard College (B.A. 1862) M.I.T., (B.S. 1868) |
| Employer: | University of Michigan |
| Occupation: | Professor of Civil Engineering, 1872-1903 Dean, Univ. of Michigan School of Engineering, 1895-1903 |
| Spouse: | Florence Emerson (married 1872) |
| Children: | Albert Emerson, Florence Wentworth |
| Parents: | Rev. James Diman Greene, Sarah Adeline (Durell) Greene |
Charles Ezra Greene (February 12, 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.[1]
Greene House and Greene Lounge, located within the East Quad dormitory on the University of Michigan's Central Campus, is named in his honor.[2]
He was an associate editor of the Engineering News from 1876 - 1877. His publications include: