Barry Onouye

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Barry Onouye is a structural engineer, emeritus faculty member in the

Department of Architecture at the University of Washington
, and author of multiple textbooks on structural engineering and design.

Education and career

Onouye was born and raised in Hawaii. He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the

University of Hawaii in 1967 and his M.S.E. in structural engineering from the University of Washington in 1969. Onouye served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Architecture in 1967, and as a part-time lecturer in the Department in 1968. He began teaching structures in the Department of Architecture as a lecturer on a full-time basis in 1969. He became a senior lecturer in 1990 and retired in 2009.[citation needed
]

Onouye is a registered

professional engineer and has maintained an engineering practice since 1972. Early in his career he participated in a National Science Foundation project addressing seismic requirements in small town building codes.[citation needed
]

Awards and recognition

Onoye received the College of Built Environments Lionel Pries Teaching Award in 1989. The University of Washington established a distinguished chair (The Barry S. Onouye Distinguished Chair in Architecture) and an endowed studio in his honor.[1]

Books

Onouye is co-author, with Kevin Kane, of Statics and Strengths of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction, 3rd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2006), author of Statics and Strength of Materials: Foundations for Structural Design (Prentice Hall 2005), and co-author with Douglas Zuberbuhler and

Francis D. K. Ching
of Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

References

  1. ^ "Onouye Studio". Retrieved 2024-01-29.

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