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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering J<V}g v
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin 76
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Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department e}-uU7O
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. )|q,RAn
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- RHz'Dz>0
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering +g@@|&B
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid rX{QgyY&
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. (3&@c!E
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from 2u~0B +)K/
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished UW. F1)
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. Xb&r|pR
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. 5MO:hE5sm
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of [="moh2*f
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the )U`H7\*)
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the j}X4#{jgC
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. 1W"9u
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books Cx}
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and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. JwRdr8q
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. u%JM0180
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural P5%DvZB$w
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering -~p@o1k0
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and >OBuHqC
Technology. Gg{@]9
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, Z:&"Ax
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University s[SzE6eQ`l
Development Projects, and for many other groups.