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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering 0KGY\,ae:;
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin NX|v=
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department ,`gl&iB
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. .Fnwm}
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- 1jc,
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Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering HYD"#m'TkB
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid o(S{VGi,
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. B
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Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from H63,bNS s
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished \/1<E?Q
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Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. NGOqy+Ty{f
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. &|!7Z4N
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of agjv{
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the |!"2fI
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the L{(QpgHZ
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. +"8,Mh
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books sFQ^2PwbS
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. M-[$L XR
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. %*&UJpbA
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural 2Z3('?\z~
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering Y]L9Y9
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and B<~ NS)w
Technology. \'9PZ6q{
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, R,|d`)T
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University qUxRM_7U
Development Projects, and for many other groups.