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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering ^jY'Hj.Bs
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin 4Dd@&N
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department x,f=J4yco
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. 4# pn]
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- [|
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Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering PS" ,
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid Ro&s\T+d
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. 4$j7DJ8dj
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from v[3QI7E3
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished zz4TJ('
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. Z*9Qeu-N:
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. jRk"#:
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Bz&6kRPv
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the 4|?y
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American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the ~ULD{Ov'F
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. 9VEx0mkdd
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books m7GM1[?r
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. P;A9t #\
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. sj"zgE)
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural {_ &*"bK
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering m|:O:<
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and ;WF3w
Technology. G5C=p:o{/
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, PrA?e{B5m
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University 7Ya4>*B
Development Projects, and for many other groups.