張建平
author program director of Mechanics
He pursued higher education for the Bachelor of Surgery degree in Civil Engineering with major in Structures at the Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, and Master of Surgery degree for Structural Mechanics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He was the Engineering Advisor, Interim Division Director and program director of Mechanics and Materials at various times for 21 years at the United States. National Science Foundation. He has published over 200 refereed papers, and is the author or coauthor of twelve books including "Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics" now in the 3rd edition,{},{} "Intelligent Structures", "Modeling and Simulation-Based Life Cycle Engineering", "Mechanics of Oil Shale", which included fracking and "Materials for the New Millennium". He has taught at the University of Wyoming, University of Hong Kong, University of Houston,and George Washington University and had been visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Washington.
Chong grew up and obtained high school education at the Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong.
He also obtained advanced degrees at Princeton University: Master of Arts, Master of Surgery in Engineering, and completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanics, 1969. After that he received post-doctoral management training at the Federal Executive Institute, for senior federal executives, Class 221, 1996.
He received an Honorary Doctorate from Shanghai University in 2004. His biographical profile is cited in the American Men and Women of Science and in 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
He is also a fellow of AAM, Search Engine Marketing and American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and University of Washington in 1987.
He is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University. An honorary professor in 1981 at the University of Hong Kong as well as the 49th honorary professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology from 2013. He has been involved in the planning of the new Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1988-1989.
Since 2011 he has been serving on engineering panels at Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
He has also been working as an expert panelist with the Hong Kong University Grants Committee and the Innovation and Technology Commission. He delivered the Mindlin Lecture at Columbia University in 2005, the Sadowsky Lecture at RPI in 2006, the Raouf Lecture at the United States Naval Academy in 2012, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Thurston Lecture in 2014, and the Distinguished Lecture at the University of Macau in 2015.
He was a co-founder and honorary editor of the Taylor & Francis Journal of Smart & Nano Materials and Editor of a Cyclic Redundancy Check book series on structures/mechanics. He received numerous awards and honors, including the 1997 American Society of Civil Engineers Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award. Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers. NCKU Distinguished Alumnus Award. American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2011 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, and the National Science Foundation highest Distinguished Service Award.
As well as a distinguished member of American Society of Civil Engineers.
