| T.Y.Lin graduated from Tangshan College, Jiaotong University, and received a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1934, he has taught and practiced civil engineering throughout China and US, and has planned and designed highways, railways, and over one thousand bridges and buildings in Asia and the Americas. His two proposals for inter-continental bridges, one across the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, and another from Europe to Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar, have received worldwide acclaim . He is known as Mr. Prestressed Concrete in the US, having pioneered both the technology and industry in the 1950's. His numerous awards include the USA National Medal of Science conferred at the White House, the Consulting Engineering Award of Merit, previously received by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower, the FIP Freyssinet Medal, the Albert Caquot Medal of the Association for Construction of France, and four honorary doctorate degrees from the US, Hong Kong, and China. He was the first member of Asian ethnicity to be elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering, and Academician of Academia Sinica, and also a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science. He has authored and co-authored three textbooks in structural engineering and more than 100 technical papers. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for 30 years and was awarded the 1994 Outstanding Alumnus of the year. He was the founder of T.Y.Lin International which he left in 1992 to form Lin Tung-Yen China, Inc.. He is also recognized throughout China as the first overseas Chinese to have proposed the development of Pudong, Shanghai, which has now become the centerpiece of China's modernization of the Yangzi delta. In the course of Pudong development, Professor Lin has worked closely with Wang Daohan, Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, and other mayors of Shanghai Municipality. |
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