Abstract:
Wai-Fah Chen is presently dean of the College of Engineering
at University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was a George E. Goodwin
Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from 1976 to 1999.
He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the National ChengKung University, Taiwan, in 1959, M.S. in structural engineering
from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in 1963, and Ph.D. in solid
mechanics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1966.
Dr. Chen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from
National Cheng-Kung University in 1988 and the Distinguished
Engineering Alumnus Medal from Brown University in 1999.
Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous national engineering awards.
Most notably, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering in 1995, was awarded the Honorary Membership in the
American Society of Civil Engineers in 1997, and was elected to the
Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science) in Taiwan in 1998.
A widely respected author, Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 20 engineering books
and 500 technical papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 technical journals.
He has been listed in more than 30 Who’s Who publications.
Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief for the popular 1995 Civil Engineering Handbook, the 1997 Structural
Engineering Handbook, the 1999 Bridge Engineering Handbook, and the 2002 Earthquake Engineering
Handbook. He currently serves as the consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology.
He has worked as a consultant for Exxon Production Research on offshore structures, for Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill in Chicago on tall steel buildings, for the World Bank on the Chinese University
Development Projects, and for many other groups.
Eric M. Lui is currently ch
