Hon-Yim Ko
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Hon-Yim Ko is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, where he held the Glenn L. Murphy Professor and Chair of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering from 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]
Hon-Yim Ko | |
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| Occupations | academic, geotechnical engineer |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (B.Sc.), California Institute of Technology, USA (M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Static Stress-Deformation Characteristics of Sand (1966) |
| Ronald F. Scott | |
| Website | University site |
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]
