Background
Onouye was born and raised in Hawaii.
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Barry Onouye
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He received his Bachelor of Surgery in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii in 1967 and his Master of Science in Engineering in structural engineering from the University of Washington in 1969.
Career
Onouye served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Architecture in 1967, and as a part-time lecturer in the Department in 1968. He began teaching structures in the Department of Architecture as a Lecturer on a full-time basis in 1969. He became a Senior Lecturer about 1990 and retired about 2009.
Onouye is a registered professional engineer and has maintained an engineering practice since 1972.
Early in his career he participated in a National Science Foundation project addressing seismic requirements in small town building codes. Onouye is co-author, with Kevin Kane, of Statics and Strengths of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction, 3rd educated
(Prentice Hall, 2006), author of Statics and Strength of Materials: Foundations for Structural Design (Prentice Hall 2005), and co-author with Douglas Zuberbuhler and Francis Doctorate. K. Ching of Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
Achievements
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In 1980 Onouye received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. He received the College of Built Environments Lionel Pries Teaching Award in 1989, and the University of Washington Graduate School"s Innovative Teaching Fund Award in 1974. The Sigma Lambda Chi Building Construction Honor Society gave Onouye its Outstanding Educator Award in 1973.
