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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering 7J5jf231
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin QeFt
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Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department eDP&W$s#
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. C4ktCN
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- xg,
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Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering qonStIP
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid ob/<;SrU<
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. xLFMC?I
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from @.a59kP8X
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished K]B`&ih
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. FIfLDT+ Wh
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. bcwb'D\a
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of ~E8/m_> rU
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the c-&Q_lB
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the SC%HHu\l
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. W&cs&>F#
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books hM!g6\ w
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. .!L{yU,
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. zj2y=A|Y
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural "O9n|B
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering !:5'MI@
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and r`sKe
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Technology. w@R" g%k-
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, PR!0=E*}
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University zfI{cMn'J
Development Projects, and for many other groups.