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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering LdSBNg#3
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin b?h)~j5
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department q(N2#di
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. #Kr\"o1]
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- ct,Iu+HJ
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering 32DSZ0
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid ^iWcuh_n
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. Sk*-B@!S
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from }8+rrzMUB
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished uU&,KEH
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. 2(s+?n.N
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. vXdz?
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of IV"OzQONx
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the
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American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the x2 s%qZ#
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. '/Y
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A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books 1-HL#y*7$
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. j\,HquTR
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. 2<