 | Wai-Meng QUACH, 郭偉明 (Stephen) |
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Prof. Wai-Meng Quach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Macau, and an Associate Editor for “Advances in Structural Engineering – An International Journal”. He is also an Expert (Structural Engineering) in the National Science and Technology Programs Expert Database, China (only 3 persons with structural engineering profession in Macau were nominated and included). He was the Head of the CEE department at the University of Macau (2013-2016), the founding Chairman of Executive Board of the Macau Society of Metal Structures (MSMS, 2007-2010), and the Honorary Advisor of the Macau Construction Association (MCA, 2008-2010).
In 2013~2016, he led the CEE department to complete the full accreditation exercise of the BSc programme in Civil Engineering; and achieve the full accreditation over 5 professional disciplines (“Structural”, “Geotechnical”, “Building”, “Civil”, and “Logistics and Transportation” ) granted by the HKIE under the recognition of the Washington Accord^.
His research interests include steel structures, cold-formed steel, additive manufacturing for construction, High performance structural materials, composite structures, strengthening and repair. He has been the principal investigator (PI) of some internal and external research projects funded by the Fundo para o Desenvolvimento das Ciências e da Tecnologia (FDCT) of Macao S.A.R, the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) of the Malaysia Ministry of Education, and the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory. Findings from these projects already led to the publication of two proceedings and over 80 papers in journals and conferences. His H-index: over 21. His total citations: over 1600. The highest citations of a single paper: over 250. Impactio Academic Ranking** : Top 0.01% in Structural Engineering, Top 0.03% in Materials Science, & Composite Material, respectively.
郭偉明，澳門大學土木與環境工程系副教授， 博士生導師， 國際期刊《Advances in Structural Engineering》副主編， 以及中國國家科技計劃專家庫– 專家(結構工程)[只有三名本澳結構工程專家被成功提名]。 從2013-2016年間， 擔任澳門大學土木工程與環境工程系系主任， 也曾任澳門金屬結構學會創會理事長(2007-2010)。 在任系主任期間(2013-2016)， 他領導工程系建立了一個健全的學術品質體系， 以提高課程品質。 在2016年， 帶領工程系取得香港工程師學會工程專業課程認證(土木專業本科課程)， 同時獲得《華盛頓協議》的認可^。
郭教授是鋼結構、冷彎鋼結構、和殘餘應力方面的專家， 尤其針對由冷成形過程所引致的幾何缺陷、殘餘應力和冷作硬化效應對鋼結構性能的影響作深入研究。 其研究領域還涉及：增材制造技術在土木建築中應用、高性能結構材料、復合材料結構、結構增強及修復技術。 作為項目負責人， 先後主持澳門科學技術發展基金及國內外 (包括：馬來西亞教育部基礎研究基金項目、廣東省實驗室重大專項團隊項目)等11項課題。 在相關領域發表60餘篇期刊及會議論文， H-指數超過21，總引用超過1600次， 單篇最高引用超過250次 (Impactio Academic Ranking** : Top 0.01% in Structural Engineering, Top 0.03% in Materials Science, & Composite Material, respectively)。
** Impactio is America’s leading platform in academic impact analytics and scientific networking.
^ As the usual practice, only top 30% universities in a country can receive this recognition for their engineering programmes with a high academic quality.