B.A. 1975 (Wisconsin at Madison)
M.Sc. 1976 (Harvard)
Ph.D. 1981 (Harvard)
Hui majored in physics and mathematics as an undergraduate and did his doctoral work in applied mechanics. After receiving his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral research assistant at Harvard University. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1981. Chung-Yuen Hui has been chosen as this year's (2005) winner of the Tau Beta Pi Teaching award. This is based upon nominations from the entire undergraduate student body in the College.
My current interest is in areas connecting mechanics and materials. In the past years, I have published in the area of adhesion science, fracture mechanics of aging aircraft, fracture mechanisms of polymer/polymer interfaces, fracture mechanics and statistical theory of failure of composite materials, high temperature creep crack growth in metals, swelling kinetics and diffusion of organic molecules in polymer glasses, hypersingular intergrals and boundary element method, sintering of ceramics, fluid mechanics of aircraft, electronic-packaging and micro-electo-mechanics systems.
