Hon-Yim Ko

Hon-Yim Ko is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, where he held the Glenn L. Murphy Professor and Chair of Engineering in 2000 to 2010.[1] He has won national renown in research and teaching in the specialties of centrifuge modeling, earthquake engineering, mechanical properties of soil and rock, constitutive modeling and soil-structure interaction. His research resulted in over 200 scholarly publications, and prestigious research awards, including the Huber Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers; and the Colorado Engineering Council Gold Medal.[2]

He excelled in university teaching, being awarded the Outstanding Educator of America from by the American Society for Engineering Education and the Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award, U. of Colorado.[3]

He is cited in the American Men and Women of Science.[4]

Education

Ko was educated in the Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong,[5] and received his B.Sc. at the University of Hong Kong. He went for graduate studies in the California Institute of Technology where he obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.[6]

References
  1. U. of Colorado press release Archived 2012-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Curriculum Vitae Archived 2011-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Hutchinson Award 1978". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
  4. American Men and Women of Science, Vol. 4, P.454, 24th Edition (2008)
  5. "Queen Elizabeth School report: Ko won government scholarship in the graduating class of 1957" (PDF). 1958. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-30.
  6. Distinguished Alumni of Hong Kong U Dept of Civil Eng


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