This book is a personal anthology of the author's utmost academic works
and accomplishments with his former students and colleagues intended as
an enduring record for the engineering community for many years to come.
The author's forty-year professional career and academic life journey is
first briefly sketched in Chapter 1 and more details are elaborated in
three chapters that follow: Chapter 2: The first ten years at Lehigh -
beginning to show; Chapter 3: Twenty=three years at Purdue - the highly
productive years; and Chapter 4: seven years at UH - the pursuit of
excellence. The author's specific academic contributions are documented
in the following three chapters: Chapter 5: 23 academic bulletins are
selected to highlight his 10 major research areas; Chapter 6: 23
Academic masterpiece books are listed along with their respective peer
review comments; and Chapter 7: academic publications include journal
articles, conference proceedings and symposiums, and lectures and
keynotes. The book ends with the listing of all the author's 55 doctoral
students' dissertation titles in Chapter 8.
In 1975 at Lehigh, the author published a milestone treatise on Limit
Analysis and Soil Plasticity. In 1982 at Purdue, he published another
pioneering work on Plasticity in Reinforced Concrete.
In September 1999, the author was recruited by UH to take the Deanship
of the College of Engineering to accomplish the noble mission: to build
the College to become one of the top 50 engineering schools by
strengthening the faculty, improving the facilities, and increasing the
enrollment. Over his seven years at UH, a lot of progress was made in
all these three areas - the research program expanded, facilities
improved, and enrollment increased.
