Y. K. Lin

Director of Center for Applied Stochastics Research
Charles E. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Engineering

Professor Lin is a member of National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of Russian Academy of Engineering. He holds the Charles E. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, where he founded the Center for Applied Stochastics Research, and has served as its Director since 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from Stanford University, and Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Prior to moving to Florida, he taught two years in China, one year in Ethiopia, and twenty-four years (1960-1983) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, and Civil Engineering. His previous industrial employments included Vertol Aircraft Corporation (1956 - 1957) and the Boeing Company (1958 - 1960). He has served as a consultant for defense, aerospace, automotive companies and government laboratories. His publications include three books, (McGraw-Hill 1967, 1995 and 2004), and over 200 technical papers, in addition to being the editor or co-editor of six books. He is a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Academy of Mechanics, and a Member of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, and American Association of Wind Engineering. He is a Registered Professional Engineer of the states of Florida and Illinois, and is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Technology, and International Who's Who in Education. 

Since the early 1960's, Professor Lin has been a champion for the application of probability and statistics in structural engineering. His pioneering book, Probabilistic Structural Dynamics (McGraw-Hill 1967, Japanese translation 1969) remains the most frequently referenced classic in the particular technical field today. His over 200 technical publications encompassed both civil and aeronautical engineering, including such diverse subjects as modeling of earthquake and wind loads on structures, response and safety of buildings and bridges to random excitations, fatigue failure of engineering materials under randomly fluctuating stresses, motion of airplane in turbulent air, sonic fatigue of aircraft panels, and motion stability of helicopters and long-span bridges. In engineering education, he has successfully supervised twenty-one Ph.D. dissertations.

Professor Lin has received numerous honors for his contributions to the engineering profession. In addition to being elected to the membership of National Academy of Engineering, and Russian Academy of Engineering, he was the recipient of Ticinense Medal from University of Pavia, Italy in 1983, Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal from ASCE in 1984, Foscolo Medal from University of Pavia, Italy in 1988, Honoree of a Festschrift Volume, Stochastic Structural Dynamics, Elsevier Applied Science, 1988, Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, University of Waterloo, Canada in 1994, Theodore von Karman Medal from ASCE in 1998, Alexander Von Humboldt Award for US Senior Scientist in 2001, and Jacob P. Den Hartog Award from ASME in 2001. The first International Symposium on Stochastic Structural Dynamics was organized in his honor and held in Urbana, Illinois in 1988, which marked the beginning of a sequence of such symposia elsewhere.


 

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