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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering u%2u%-w
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin )K}b,X`($
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department E:7vm@+
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. cWm.']
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- g
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Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering i''dY!2
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid
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mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. 0]T
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Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from gpPktp2
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished m<j ^cU#J
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. hPl;2r
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. \.{?TB
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of "l!"gc87
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the zMDR1/|D
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the pz(clTOD:
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. HtMlSgx,8>
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books ?C_%"!GR
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. oY{*X6:6<
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. YO=;)RA
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural 7+ c?eH
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering \]^|IViIQ
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and `ul"D%
Technology. >k:)'*
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, E;N+B34
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University wH<S0vl
Development Projects, and for many other groups.