MIT School of Engineering
Dick K.P. Yue, Sc.D.
M.I.T. School of Engineering
Director of International Programs
Director, Singapore-MIT Alliance
Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
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Dick K.P. Yue is the Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering, and Professor
of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT.
He serves as the Director for International Programs for the School of Engineering , and co-Chair of the Institute-wide MIT Global Council. Professor Yue is also the MIT Director for the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and the co-Director for the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He considers himself “first and foremost a researcher and educator,” but his position in the MIT administration affords him numerous opportunities to make an impact Institute-wide.
Professor Yue is a long-time MIT'er, having received all his degrees (S.B.,
S.M. and Sc.D./Ph.D.) from MIT. He has been a faculty member in Ocean
Engineering (part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) since 1983.
He is active in research and teaching in marine fluid mechanics and ocean
engineering, fields of interest that are fundamental to broad classes
of problems ranging from coastal and offshore development to understanding
the role of oceans in global warming; and he supervises an active research
group of over 20 members, directing the Vortical Flow Research Laboratory
and co-directing the Ocean Engineering Towing Tank facility. His main
research contributions are in theoretical and computational hydrodynamics,
and he is internationally recognized for his expertise on ocean and coastal
wave dynamics and for his extensive work in nonlinear wave mechanics,
large-amplitude motions and loads on ships and offshore structures, making
seminal contributions in developing numerical methods for these types
of problems. Professor Yue has also made fundamental contributions to
the understanding of hydrodynamics of fish swimming, overturning a century-old
design paradigm for underwater vehicles and ushering in a new era of applying
biomimetic principles to man-made marine designs. Professor Yue has also
made seminal contributions to the study of free-surface vortical and turbulent
flows, the complex mechanisms at the air-sea interface and their effects
on interfacial processes. He has authored/co-authored more than two hundred
papers and a two-volume textbook on wave hydrodynamics and ocean fluid
mechanics.
Professor Yue served as Associate Dean of Engineering from 1999-2007 (the
number two person in the MIT's Office of the Dean of Engineering), and
was actively engaged in the overall administration of the School and in
its pioneering educational and research initiatives. During that time,
he was the originator of the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) concept and its
formulation and played a major role in its adoption by MIT, and in its
successful funding and implementation. Recently, MIT celebrated the significant
milestone of publishing 1,800 courses online, which is effectively every
subject MIT teaches: all undergraduate and graduate courses from every
school and department. MIT OCW has impacted many millions of educators,
students and self-learners nationally and internationally from every country
and continent. Professor Yue was also the Founding Faculty Director of
the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a program that
is transforming engineering education by providing sophomores with special
training and industry-based work experiences. UPOP addresses the core
issue of the lack of immediate job readiness in traditional engineering
education, and promotes the future success and leadership of MIT's engineering
graduates. UPOP now enrolls close to half of all engineering majors, with
an objective to benefit effectively all of MIT's graduates in the foreseeable
future. Professor Yue also helped create and served as the Founding Faculty
Director of MIT's Professional Educational Programs (PEP) office, consolidating
many of MIT's existing activities in this area under one organization,
and creating a focal point for developing new professional and custom
educational programs and offerings. In 2008, in recognition of these and
other wide-ranging activities benefiting MIT, Professor Yue received the
prestigious Gordon Y. Billard Award for services of outstanding merit
to the Institute.
Professor Yue is married to the former Miss Eva H. Wu. They have four children: Kevin Paul, Teresa Grace, Emily Joyce, and Brian John. The Yues reside in Weston , Massachusetts .
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