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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering a?^xEye
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin MXQS6F#
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department IiX`l6L~W
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. WnATgY t
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- DM*GvBdR
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering u+U '|6)E
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid \a\J0&Z
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. )Fa6'M
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from .tFMa:
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished L\O}q
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. K@0gBgN
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. +i %,+3#6
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of G"_ 8`l
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the jGp|:!'w
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the G{4~{{tI
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. .JkcCEe{G
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books F0&BEJBkU
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. +a@:?=hc
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. _PI w""ssr
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural 2!UNFv#=$
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering (YOp
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and C}})dL;(
Technology. f76bEe/B9
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, NTj: +z0
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University +y}4^3Vx^
Development Projects, and for many other groups.