UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 9
October 31, 1996
Prof. Chou recipient of '96 Richards Award

     Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, has received the 1996 Charles Russ Richards Memorial
Award of Pi Tau Sigma and American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
     Named after the founder of Pi Tau Sigma, the award honors
mechanical engineers, who graduated more than 20 years ago and
have demonstrated outstanding achievement.
     The award carries a $1,000 honorarium, a certificate and
expense-paid trip to the 1996 International Mechanical
Engineering Congress and Exposition in Atlanta in November where
the award will be presented.
     Chou received his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan
University, his master's degree from Northwestern University and
his doctorate from Stanford University.
     Joining the University of Delaware faculty in 1969, Chou's
research interests are in materials science, applied mechanics
and fiber composite materials. Chou was a founding member of the
University's Center for Composite Materials.
     He has published more than 325 technical papers, is the
author of Microstructural Design of Fiber Composites (1992), and
co-author of Composite Materials and Their Use in Structures,
(1975) and has edited several other volumes and journals in the
composite field. Currently, he is North American editor of the
journal, Composites, Science and Technology.
     Chou has served as a visiting professor at several
institutes of learning in Europe, South Africa, South America and
Asia.
     Most recently in 1990, he was at Tongji University in China
and Tokyo Science University. He also is an honorary professor of
the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
                                              -Sue Swyers Moncure