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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering #v$wjqK5
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin DHjfd+E=s
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department Q6 o1^s
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. _8SB+s*
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- ])v61B
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering zNGUll$
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid C_;nlG6
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. _lT'nFe=Q
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from GXLh(d!C
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished hb0)<^xu
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. k!z.6di
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. z<P?p
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of SG~HzQ\%
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the uDcs2^2l
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the 2>.b~q@
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. $M,Q"QL
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books c#?~1@=
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. Bk~lM'
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. sm?b,T/
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural | Wj=%Ol%o
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering npytb*[|c
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and ON{a'H
Technology. Wd+kjI \
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, Nv0a]Am
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University 4a!%eBhX"K
Development Projects, and for many other groups.