Tung-Yen Lin (林同炎, pinyin: Lín Tóngyán) (November 14, 1912 - November 15, 2003) was a world-renowned civil engineer best known as the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete. Pinyin (拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ... November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In modern usage, civil engineering is a broad field of engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, or public works, as they related to earth, water, or civilization and their processes. ... This article is about the construction material. ...

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, 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 University of California, Berkeley in 1933. Lin's master's thesis was the first student thesis published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fuzhou (Chinese: 福州; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Fu-chou; SLC: Hùk-cieu; also seen as Foochow or Fuchow) is a city on the coast of China, the largest city in and capital of Fujian province. ...   Beijing? (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking) is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... The Republic of China (Traditional Chinese: 中華民國; Simplified Chinese: 中华民国; Wade-Giles: Chung¹-hua² Min²-kuo², Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHuá MínGuó, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó, Taiwanese POJ: Tiong-hoâ Bîn-kok) is a multiparty democratic state that today is composed of the island groups of Taiwan, the Pescadores, Quemoy... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jiaotong University is the name of several universities: Northern Jiaotong University, in Beijing Shanghai Jiaotong University, in Shanghai Southwest Jiaotong University, in Chengdu Xian Jiaotong University, in Xian National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. ...

Lin returned to China after graduation to work with the Chinese Ministry of Railways. He became chief bridge engineer of the Yunnan-Chongqing Railway and oversaw the design and construction of more than 1,000 bridges. He returned to UC Berkeley to join its faculty in 1946 and retired in 1976 to work full time at T.Y. Lin International, a firm he founded in 1954. He left that firm in 1992 to found Lin Tung-Yen China, which oversees engineering projects in China. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

When Lin received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he handed over a 16-page plan for a 50-mile bridge linking Alaska and Siberia across the Bering Strait, a project he dubbed the Intercontinental Peace Bridge. He also proposed a bridge across the Strait of Gibraltar that would have 16,000 foot spans and 3,000 feet tall towers. National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science, also called the Presidential Medal of Science, is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Official languages English Area 1,067,653 mi² / 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, about 85 km in width, with a depth of... The Intercontinental Peace Bridge is a proposed/envisioned bridge spanning the Bering Strait between Cape Dezhnev, Siberia, Russia, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. ... The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from space. ...

Among his engineering accomplishments were the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, the Kuan Du Bridge in Taiwan, and the roof of the National Racetrack in Caracas, Venezuela. location: Taipei, Taiwan main span: 165 meters completed:1983 Designed by: Tung-yen Lin(1912~2003) structural type: arch bridge spanned on Danshui River between Danshui and Bali ...

He died of an heart attack at age 91. His El Cerrito home is the world's first residential structure made of prestressed concrete. El Cerrito, California may refer to: El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California (The City of El Cerrito, California) El Cerrito, Riverside County, California (A small unincorporated area surrounded by Corona, California) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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• UC Berkeley Obituary