DATE: May 19, 2008
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Clemson civil engineer receives international honor
CLEMSON — A Clemson University professor of civil engineering, Charng Hsein Juang, has been awarded the Chair Professorship at National Central University (NCU), a major research university in Taiwan.
Juang is known internationally for his innovations in the field of geotechnical engineering. His work on liquefaction, brace excavation and slope stability is widely cited. His research and expertise in geomechanics and earthquake engineering has been funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey.
The initial appointment of the chair professorship is for a three-year term and provides funding to support the holder’s visit to NCU. Yong-Ming Tien, chairman of the NCU civil engineering department who was a visiting scholar at Clemson in 2002, nominated Juang.
The appointment of the Chair Professorship at NCU is a high honor for an international scholar. Other current awardees include Douglas D. Osheroff of Stanford University and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996; Ralph T. Yang of the University of Michigan and a member of the National Academy of Engineering; Jacques Angelier of the University of Paris and a member of Academie des Sciences; and King-Ning Tu of UCLA and a member of Academia Sinica.
Juang is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE is the oldest engineering society in the U.S. and represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide. The grade of Fellow is an honor recognizing professional distinction and achievement.
The researcher has mentored hundreds of students in his 25 years of teaching. He has served on technical committees within ASCE’s Geo-Institute and is a member of the editorial board of the Society’s Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and three other international engineering journals including Engineering Geology. At Clemson, Juang’s accomplishments include more than 100 refereed journal articles, more than 50 conference papers and 13 Ph.D. graduates.
He is a graduate of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and received his Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1981 from Purdue University.
Clemson is a nationally recognized research university where approximately 5,500 students are enrolled in engineering and science undergraduate and graduate courses. The department of civil engineering is one of 20 of the largest civil engineering departments in numbers of degrees awarded in the United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate course work in applied fluid mechanics, construction engineering and management, construction materials, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering and transportation systems. Connect to http://www.clemson.edu/ce/ for more information.
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