Hoang Nam, PhD, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Hochiminh City University of Technology, was announced as an Academy Fellow in February of 2008.
Hoang Nam from Hochiminh City University of Technology, which is part of Vietnam National University, will be visiting as a Fellow at the McDonnell Academy for the month of February 2008. Dr. Nam earned his doctoral degree in engineering in 2004 from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. While at Washington University, Dr. Nam will meet with Academy scholars and ambassadors and will conduct research with Professor Shirley Dyke and her students from the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Nam has published extensively on topics such as cable vibration, passive vibration control, structural identification from vibration measurements, and time series analysis.