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Tung-Yen Lin was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.

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Tungyen Lin (November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003), formerly known as Tong Yin, was a native of Donghan Village, Fuqing, Fujian Province. He was a Chinese-American structural engineer.

Tungyen Lin’s memorial statue, located in the Xipu campus of Southwest Jiaotong University

Born: November 14, 1912, Fuzhou
Died: November 15, 2003 (91 years old) El Cerrito

Alma Mater :
Southwest Jiaotong University
University of California, Berkeley
Beijing Huiwen Middle School

Profession :
Civil engineer, engineer, university teacher, structural engineer

Awards:
U.S. National Medal of Science, Honorary Doctorate of Tongji University

Biography
The second son of Lin Sibi, a judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of China. He started receiving formal school education at the age of 11. At the age of 14, he was admitted to Tangshan Institute of Technology of National Chiao Tung University (now Southwest Jiaotong University) with the first place in mathematics and the second place in other subjects. In 1931, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and th

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Lin, Tung-Yen, 1912-
(T. Y. Lin)
Tung: tung-chih=comrade;
Yen: left radical (mu=wood), right radical (yen=two fires, top and bottom)
also, 林同驊 or 林同棪
world-renowned structural engineer and bridge designer
"Mr. Prestressed Concrete"; "Peace Bridge"
designer of Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
designer of the roof structure of the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco
designer of the largest underground room in the world.
board chairman of Lin Tung-Yen China, Inc., USA
professor emeritus of civil engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Born:
Fujian Province, China

Education:
B.S., Tangshan College, Jiaotong University, 1931
MS, University of California at Berkeley,1933

Honors:
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected on June 7, 1996)
Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
became the first member of Asian ethnicity to be elected to the USA National Academy of Engineering
received the first award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Design from the American Society of Civil

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Chinese-American structural engineer

This article is about the Chinese American structural engineer. For the infrastructure firm he founded, see T. Y. Lin International.

Tung-Yen Lin (Chinese: 林同棪; pinyin: Lín Tóngyán; November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.^[1]

Biography

Born in Fuzhou, China, as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court. He did not begin formal schooling until age 11, and only so because his parents forged his birth year to be 1911 so that he would qualify. At only 14, entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College (now Southwest Jiaotong University), having earned the top score in math and the second best score overall in the college entrance exams for his entering class. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1931 and left for the United States, where he earned his master's degree in civil engineering from the Unive