About

Young C. Kim is currently Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. His field of specialization is in coastal and hydraulic engineering. Other academic positions held include a Visiting Scholar of Coastal Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (1971); a NATO Senior Fellow in Science at the Delft Technological University (1975); a Visiting Scientist at the Osaka City University (1976); and a Visiting Professor, Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis (2011-2013). For more than a decade, he served as Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, and in 1978, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. For his dedicated teaching and outstanding professional activities, he was awarded the university-wide Outstanding Professor Award in 1994. He was a consultant to the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme where he investigated the effects of underwater explosions to coastal and ocean-based structures. Later, he became a resident consultant to the Science Engineering Associates where he investigated wave forces on the Howard-Doris platform structure, now being placed in Ninian Field, North Sea. As an active participants and supporter of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, he was on the Organizing Committee for the 27th Congress of IAHR held in San Francisco in 1997. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has been a member of the International Board of Director of the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology. He is the past President of PACON. He has been involved in organizing 14 national and international conferences, has authored 8 books, and has published 56 technical papers in various engineering journals. He served as an editor for the Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering (2010), Coastal and Ocean Engineering Practice (2012), Design of Coastal Structures and Sea Defenses (2015), and Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Expanded Edition (2018). He is a Distinguished Diplomate of Coastal Engineering from the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers (2011), a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (2012), and an Honorary Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (2019).

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Wave Forces, Interaction of Coastal Structures and Sea Waves, Hydraulic Model Studies, Wave Energy absorption in Coastal Structures, Extraction of Energy from the Sea.

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