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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering (b f
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at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin `_OrBu[
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department {+WY,%e
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. j@z IJ
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- lxL.ztL
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering HbA/~7
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid ^%9oeT{
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. FefroaJ:u
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from vnvpb!
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National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished n>q!m@ }<
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. z eT`kZ
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. A|r3c?q
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of jjj<B'zt
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the lEFd^@t
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the F&czD;F
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. ~ h3G}EH
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books Mi8)r_l%O
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. ?<!qF:r:
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. [cd1Mf:[Y
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural 3 Vc}Q'&Y
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering :,JaOn'
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and ?yef?JI$p
Technology. @}d;-m~
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, }OAU5P!rp
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University 6(`N!]e*L
Development Projects, and for many other groups.