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CURRICULUM VITA OF JAMES T. P. YAO (1999-2000)
[E-mail address: jtpyao@tamu.edu;
URL address: http://lohman.tamu.edu]
James T. P. Yao received his B.S.C.E. (with Honors), M.S.C.E., and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1957, 1958, and 1961, respectively. From 1961 to 1964 and 1965
to 1971, he taught in the Department of Civil Engineering at the
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. During the academic
year of 1964-65, he was a Postdoctoral Preceptor in the Department
of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University
in the City of New York. From 1971 through January 1988, he was
a Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana, where he also served as an Assistant Head for Research
Programs in Civil Engineering from 1983 through January 1988, and
as an Assistant Dean of the Graduate School from 1984 to 1987. Since
February 1988, he has been a Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas
A&M University at College Station, Texas, where he served as
the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering through spring 1993.
Since 1 December 1996, he has been the holder of the Carolyn S.
and Tommie E. Lohman Professorship in Engineering Education.
He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of New Mexico
and Texas. Prior to 1988, he worked on practical problems with several
consulting firms and government agencies. He also had opportunities
to present lectures at several universities and to visit several
laboratories in this country and abroad.
He is the author or co-author of several technical papers on structural
fatigue; earthquake engineering; civil engineering applications
of artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic; structural safety, control,
and reliability; and civil engineering education.
He joined the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as a student
member in the fifties and has been an Honorary Member since 1997.
He is also a long-time member of the American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE) and has been a Fellow member since 1999. During
these past three decades, he served on several ASCE committees in
EMD, STD, SEI, EdAC/PAC, CPP, Albuquerque Branch, Indiana Section,
and Texas Section. He was and has been a member of the editorial
board of several technical journals. He is a recipient or co-recipient
of several awards including the 1971 Annual Research Lectureship
at the University of New Mexico; the 1982 Harold Munson Award for
Outstanding Teacher in Civil Engineering and the 1982 Ross Judson
Buck Award for Outstanding Counselor in Civil Engineering at Purdue
University; the 1973 and 1983 ASCE State of the Art in Civil Engineering
Awards; the 1990 ASCE Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal; the 1990
Max Planck Research Award from the Max Planck Society and the Alexander
Von Humboldt Foundation in Germany; a 1991 Distinguished Alumnus
Award from the Civil Engineering Alumni Association of the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the 1992 ASCE Richard R. Torrens
Award, a 1993 ASEE Centennial Medallion, the 1995 ASCE President's
Medal, the 1997 Lecture Award by the International Association for
Structural
Safety and Reliability (IASSAR), and the 1999 ASCE Norman Medal.
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