EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou is the Pierre S. du
Pont Chair of Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Chou received the
B.S. degree in civil engineering from the National Taiwan University (1963), the
M.S. degree in materials science from Northwestern University (1966) and the
Ph.D. degree in materials science from Stanford University. He joined the
faculty of the University of Delaware in 1969. Dr. Chou also has served as a
visiting professor in the following institutes: Argonne National Laboratory
1975-76, British Science Research Council 1976, the University of
Witerwatersrand, South Africa 1977, National Commission for the Investigation of
Space, Argentina 1981, Germany Aerospace Research Establishment 1982, London
Branch Office, Office of Naval Research 1983, Tongji University, China 1990,
Tokyo Science University, Japan 1990, and Industrial Research Institute, Japan
1997. Dr. Chou is an Honorary Research Professor of the Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Northwestern Polytechnical University of
China. He has performed composites technology assessments in Europe and Asia for
ONR and ARO, respectively.
Dr. Chou's research interests are in
materials science, applied mechanics, fiber composite materials, piezoelectric
materials, and nanocomposites. He has authored over 300 archival journal papers
and book chapters in these areas. Dr. Chou is the author of the book,
Microstructural Design of Fiber Composites, Cambridge University Press, England
(1992), the co-author of the book, Composites Materials and Their Use in
Structures, Elsevier Applied Science, London (1975), and the editor of several
books. Dr. Chou is a Fellow of ASME, ASM International, ASC, TMS and AIAA, and a
recipient of the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award and the Worcester Reed
Warner Medal of ASME, the Distinguished Research Award of American Society
for Composites, and the Francis Alison Medal of the University of Delaware.
Dr. Chou is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Composites
Science and Technology. He has been recognized by ISI as one of the
"Highly Cited Researchers" in the world.
