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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering N_T5sZ\
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin J.yM@wPS>
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department '<o3x$6
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of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. cp@Fj"
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- ]B3](TH"
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering 2Xl+}M.:Y
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid R->x_9y-R
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. Z
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Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from |4mvB2r
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished V8/d27\
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. c;kU|_
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. -US:a8`
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of m,Y/ke\
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the :gV~L3YW5
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the ZK]qQrIwy
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. kumV|$Y?kA
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books \!\:p/f
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. S=k!8]/d|
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. 0 SSdp<
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural Y$L`
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Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering 59oTU
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and 1w=.vj<d8
Technology. B2[f1IMI
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, NVb}uH*i
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University jUm-!SK}q
Development Projects, and for many other groups.