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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering YZf{."Opj[
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin <odi>!ViH
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department $)#orZtzr
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. Al^tM0T^
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- hju^x8
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Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering vFk@
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid F=qILwd
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. hL3up] pZ
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from > Z+*tq
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished
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Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. 8Yq06o38C
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. )-4c@
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of pbx*Y`v
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the Xe_ <]|
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the Jinh#iar
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. GJ%^hr`P
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books ;U(]#pW!t
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. )J 'F]s
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. $4{sPHi)I
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural lq9|tt6Z
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering 5k0iVpjQ
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and TQ(q[:>
Technology. _m9k2[N!
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, %tVU Rj
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University dEk#"cvg
Development Projects, and for many other groups.