Intermediate Classical Mechanics
暫譯: 中級古典力學

Prof. Yih-Hsing Pao was born on Jan 1930 in China. He received the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1952, the M.S. degree in Mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. in 1955, and Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanics from Columbia University, U.S.A. in 1959. In 1958, he joined the faculty group of Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (T&AM), College of Engineering, Cornell University, and became a Professor in 1968, and J.C. Ford Chair Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1984. He also served as the Chairman of T&AM from 1974 to 1980. He retired completely from Cornell University as J.C. Ford Chair Professor Emeritus in 2000. During his leave from Cornell University, he was appointed as the Director and Professor of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University from 1984 to 1986, and from 1989 to 1994. In 1994, he resigned from the position of Director and served as Professor of Emeritus since 1998. In 2003, YH Pao was invited by Zhejiang University, China to be a professor of College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, a lifetime faculty position. Due to illness, he passed away in 2013. In resarch, he devoted himself to the area of Elastodynamics, Physical Acoustics, Electromagneto-Mechanics, Mechanical Vibrations, Civil Aviation Structure Dynamics, Rock and Soil Dynamics, Propagation in Elastic Solids, Non-Destructive Testing, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamic, and so on. Prof. Pao was elected a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on an engineer by the U.S. government. In 1986, he was elected an Academician by the Academia Sinica (at Taipei), a lifetime honor for a Chinese scholar. In 1989, he received the senior U.S. Scientist Award from Humboldt Foundation, Germany, visiting T.H. Darmstadt. In 1995, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree by National Chiao-Tung University (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan). Because of contribution to the scientific research and education of Taiwan, he was one of three recipients of Presidential Science Prize of Taiwan in 2003. His 1977 paper "Generalized Ray Theory and Transient Responses of Layered Elastic Solids" was selected in 2000 by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) as one of the landmark papers in Mechanics of the 20th century.

Prof. Li-Sheng Wang was born in Taiwan in 1961. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1983, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A. in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1991, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland. Since 1991, he has been with the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, where he is currently a Professor. In resarch, his major interests include classical mechanics, dynamics, control, and navigation. He is a senior member of the society of IEEE, and served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 1998 to 1999.

教授包以興於1930年1月出生於中國。他於1952年獲得國立台灣大學土木工程學士學位，1955年在美國倫斯勒理工學院獲得力學碩士學位，並於1959年在美國哥倫比亞大學獲得應用力學博士學位。1958年，他加入康奈爾大學工程學院理論與應用力學研究所（T&AM）教職，並於1968年晉升為教授，1984年成為理論與應用力學J.C. Ford講座教授。他還於1974年至1980年擔任T&AM的主任。2000年，他以J.C. Ford名譽教授的身份完全退休於康奈爾大學。在離開康奈爾大學期間，他於1984年至1986年及1989年至1994年擔任國立台灣大學應用力學研究所所長及教授。1994年，他辭去所長職位，自1998年起擔任名譽教授。2003年，包教授受邀至中國浙江大學擔任土木工程與建築學院教授，為終身教職。因病於2013年去世。在研究方面，他專注於彈性動力學、物理聲學、電磁力學、機械振動、民用航空結構動力學、岩土動力學、彈性固體中的傳播、無損檢測、地震工程及結構動力學等領域。包教授於1985年當選美國國家工程院院士，這是美國政府頒發給工程師的最高榮譽。1986年，他被選為中央研究院（台北）院士，這是對中國學者的終身榮譽。1989年，他獲得德國洪堡基金會頒發的美國資深科學家獎，並訪問達姆施塔特工業大學。1995年，他獲得國立交通大學（新竹，台灣）頒發的榮譽博士學位。因對台灣科學研究和教育的貢獻，他於2003年獲得台灣總統科學獎，為三位獲獎者之一。他於1977年發表的論文《層狀彈性固體的廣義射線理論及瞬態響應》於2000年被國際理論與應用力學聯合會（IUTAM）選為20世紀力學的里程碑論文之一。

王立生教授於1961年出生於台灣。他於1983年獲得國立台灣大學電機工程學士學位，並於1987年及1990年分別在美國馬里蘭大學（College Park）獲得電機工程碩士及博士學位。1990年至1991年，他擔任馬里蘭大學數學系的研究助理。自1991年以來，他一直在國立台灣大學應用力學研究所任教，目前擔任教授。在研究方面，他的主要興趣包括經典力學、動力學、控制及導航。他是IEEE的資深會員，並於1998年至1999年擔任IEEE自動控制學報的副編輯。