About Dr. Genda Chen, PE

HONORARY MEMBER

Dr. Genda Chen earned his bachelor and master of science degrees from Dalian Institute of Technology in Dalian, China. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After a few years of consulting, in 1996 Chen joined the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department at Missouri S&T as an assistant professor. Since then he has been an outstanding instructor in our department by teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and introducing new courses. His research interests include structural health monitoring, deterioration of composite structures, adaptive passive dampers, and seismic analysis and retrofit, among others. He is now associate director of Missouri S&T’s Mid-America Transportation Center and the Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering. He holds three patents, has received several national and university awards (e.g. National Science Foundation CAREER Award), has been a U.S. delegate on nearly 20 national and international workshops, and has been an invitee to post-disaster reconnaissance, including the 2011 Japan earthquake, the 2010 Chile earthquake, the 2008 China earthquake and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  He has authored over 120 journal articles and over 170 conference articles, written 37 engineering reports and advised 42 Ph.D. and M.S. students. Chen and his wife, Sharon, have one daughter Jingwen, a graduate student in computer science at Missouri S&T.