杜風 65 期 特別報導 |
回憶臺大土木的老師們
茅聲燾
加州州立大學北嶺分校土木系教授 |
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老師常常是影響我們一生發展的人,而引導我走上土木教學硏究之路的是土木系所的老師們,他們活在當時我的學生生涯中,今天他們仍活在我的記憶中。
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讀書時的土木系館 |
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大學畢業照 |
我在台大土木系所連續七年後決定要走教學研究的路,因為受了土木老師們身教言教的影響,當時沒有一位有博士學位,但他們明顯的各有專精,認真教學,而土木系的課程及教授的設計也顯然是精心規劃的,基本課全是專任老師開的,實務課則請兼任老師分擔,在研究所更請客座教授引進最新的發展,因此我在台大土木打下了紮實的根基,去美國攻讀博士沒有不能克服的難題,三年後畢業了。
在岀國前聽到盧衍祺老師說博士後最好有兩年工程經驗再去學校教書,我後來確是做了兩年事,但卻放棄了去紐約港務局的機會而去麻省理工學院做了兩年研究工程師。而出國前去見虞兆中老師表示我計畫在博士後回台大教書,他並沒有鼓勵我,但說了這麼一段話,他說有好幾位學生都曾有過這個打算,但岀國成了家,生了孩子,面臨種種生活上的實際考量,只好選擇留下就業了,我一聽卻激起了更堅定的決心,我回說我會回來的。
五年後我回母系時正逢虞老師任工學院院長,又逢丁觀海主任年高倦勤,無巧不巧走上教育行政的路,四十多年後回顧一生仍有多半是從事教學研究,而導向這條大路的是在台大土木的我的老師們。
茅聲燾
Sheng-Taur Mau (S.T. Mau)
學歷:
Ph.D. Cornell University 1971 Structural Engineering
M.S. National Taiwan University 1967 Structural Engineering
B.S. National Taiwan University 1965 Civil Engineering
經歷:
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2002-2009; Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, 2002-2006, California State University, Northridge.
Distinguished Professor and Dean, Newark College of Engineering, 1998-2002, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Professor, 1989-1998; Associate Professor, 1985-89; Visiting Professor, 1984-85; Visiting Professor, Spring 1981; Chair, 1993-96, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston.
Professor, 1979-84 (on leave 1980-81); Associate Professor, 1973-77; Lecturer, 1967-68, ; Chair, 1973-79, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University.
Visiting Research Professor, July, 1981, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Visiting Professor, Fall 1980, Department of Structural Engineering, Cornell University.
Senior Research Engineer, 1971-73, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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