Chih-Hsiao Yeng

• Serving as a software enginner to add functions into an existed C++ application

• Gave a lecture on the Direct Analysis Method in a course, Design of Steel Structure, every year for 6 years • The Direct Analysis Method is the preferred stability design method for structural steel buildings in the US

• Developed C# applications for wind, seismic, equipment loads calculation using Mathcad • Implemented the Direct Analysis Method for steel design as per American building code in projects • Offered training programs to colleagues and clients' engineers on - Designing steel structures using the Direct Analysis Method - Designing reinforced concrete structures and foundations using commercial and in-house software - Calculating wind and seismic loads on structures and equipment

• Designed a petrochemical plant’s equipment supported structures and their foundations as per the American building code • Designed a power plant’s pipe rack and its foundations, and pit as per the Malaysian building code and the Eurocodes• Designed a petrochemical plant’s equipment supported structures and their foundations as per the American building code • Designed a power plant’s pipe rack and its foundations, and pit as per the Malaysian building code and the Eurocodes

• C++ courses taken: Advanced Programming, Prallel Programming • Open-source library contributed: - preCICE (for multi-physics simulations): Refactored a C++ class by using the linear algebra called Eigen

• Master's thesis: "Torsional Response of Welded End-Slot Buckling-Restrained Brace," supervisor: Professor Keh-Chyuan Tsai, thesis grade: A+; conducted finite element analysis with Abaqus and full-scale specimen tests as part of thesis research • Worked as a teaching assistant in the course, Design of Steel Structure, for one semester

• C++ courses taken: Computer Programming, Object-oriented Programming