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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering F<4rn
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin W?7l-k=S
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department 3)OZf{D[
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. Z[vx0[av&
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- wcHk]mLM
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering *miG<
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid FOaA}D `]
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. #ydold{F
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from P\7DA4]
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished #J5BHY~
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. 5f0M{J,KC
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. $+gQnI3w
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of <H[w0Z$
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the Ht`fC|E
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the \u=d`}E
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. + a#&W}K
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books `At.$3B
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. ;i{B,!#
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. 8&QST!JGSX
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural r}U6LE?>
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering , 5'o>Y
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and C* `WMP*
Technology. <,.$U\W
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, M!mL/*G@YE
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University 6(|mdk`i
Development Projects, and for many other groups.