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Prof. Iu Vai Pan from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Macau (UM) was recently elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), becoming the first Fellow of ASCE in Macao.
Founded in 1852, ASCE is the world’s oldest professional society of engineers, an international leader in the field of civil engineering, and the biggest publishing organization of civil engineering information and knowledge. ASCE has 150,000 members worldwide, among whom fewer than 6% hold the Fellow status. Outside US there are approximately 700 ASCE Fellows. ASCE Fellows occupy the Society’s second-highest membership grade, exceeded only by Honorary Members.
Based on Prof Iu’s outstanding accomplishment in the field of civil engineering, the Membership Application Review Committee of ASCE approved his election to Fellow and Prof Iu became the first scholar from Macao to be elected. The honour is an international recognition of his outstanding professional accomplishment in civil engineering
Prof. Iu has been dedicated to civil engineering education and research in structural mechanics for more than two decades. His research includes finite element method, nonlinear vibration, computational mechanics and steel structures. His academic papers have been published in numerous prestigious international journals. In addition to ASCE Fellow, Prof. Iu also serves as member of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, invited board member of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and board member of Internationl Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics.
ASCE is also the world’s biggest publishing organization of civil engineering information and knowledge. In 2009 ASCE published 31 kinds of journals, proceedings, books, committees’ reports, practice handbooks, standards, and monographs. Most of ASCE-published journals have been included in world-renowned databases such as SCI and EI. Of all civil engineering-related SCI journals, nine ASCE journals rank among the top 30 in terms of the total citation frequency.
