Keynote Speakers

Houqun Chen (China)
Idea and Practice of Seismic Safety Evaluation of High Arch Dams in China
Cancelled (2006-0917)

Jae-Kwan Kim (Korea)
KOCED Program: Vision, Implementation and Lessons Learned

Chin-Hsiung Loh (Taiwan)
Structural Health Monitoring: Progress, Potential and Challenges

Akira Wada (Japan)
Next Step is to Select Good Structures by People

Gregory L. Fenves & Masayoshi Tomizuka (USA)
Distributed Sensor Applications for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring and Sensing Rich Approach to the Design of Modern Mechatronic Systems

Banquet Speech
Dr. S. C. Liu
National Science Foundation, USA.
Engineering: Culture, Tradition, and Diversity

Invited Speaker
W. Phillip Yen
Program Manager, Seismic Hazard Mitigation, Office of Infrastructure, R&D, Federal Highway Administration, USA.
SEISMIC VULNERABILITY STUDY OF THE US HIGHWAY BRIDGE SYSTEMS