Yu Kweng Lin
Yu Kweng Lin , mostly quoted by YK Lin, (born October 30, 1923 in Fuzhou ) is an American engineer.
Lin graduated from Amoy University with a bachelor's degree in 1946 and Stanford University with a master's degree in civil engineering in 1955 and a doctorate in structural engineering in 1957. From 1960 to 1983 he was professor of aeronautical engineering and astronautics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he founded the Center for Applied Stochastics Research and was its director since 1984. He also taught for one year in Ethiopia and two years in China.
In 1998 he received the Von Karman Medal and also in 2001 the JP Den Hartog Award from ASME, in 1984 the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal and in 2000 the Humboldt Research Award . He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo (1994) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering , an external member of the Russian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ASCE and the American Academy of Mechanics.
He was licensed as an engineer in Florida and Illinois and has advised companies in the auto, aircraft, and defense industries. From 1958 to 1960 he was a research engineer at Boeing and from 1975 at the research laboratories of General Motors, was a consultant at General Dynamics / Convair in 1967 and at the US Army Weapons Command in Illinois from 1972 to 1977. In 1967/68 he was visiting professor at MIT.
Fonts
- Probabilistic theory of structural dynamics, McGraw Hill 1967, Krieger 1976
- with GQ Cai: Probabilistic Structural Dynamics, McGraw Hill 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lin, Yu Kweng |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lin, YK |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuzhou |