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Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering JK^%V\m
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin GPs4:CIgG
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department :LX!T&
of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from1976 to 1999. f~=e
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National Cheng- o%]b\Vl6
Kung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering }o
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from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid l3MA&&++KF
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966. "0G)S'
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from 2g)q
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National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished C&d,|e "\
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999. p,8:(|(
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards. ,bzgjw+R5
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of U.^%7.
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the 0[g5[?Vy
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the 7[ kDc-
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998. '2|mg<Ft
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books k~<ORnda
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals. <4?(|Vh[m]
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications. :Oj!J&A
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural !_o1;GzK
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering 6S%KUFB+e
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and fH,h\0
Technology. :5^5l
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore, PR7bu%Y*eD
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University dXt@x8E
Development Projects, and for many other groups.