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(1954) in civil engineering and engineering mechanics from Columbia University.
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and chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics ~ 1985 to 1988~. After forty years of distinguished service at Columbia, in 1988 Richard was recruited by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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He organized the first few symposia in tissue engineering and fostered its development as the new frontier of biomedical engineering. Richard had an outstanding ability to formulate problems by distilling their essence into clear mathematical form and to seek out the subject that is fundamental and important.
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He was president of the Society of Engineering Science and the Society of Biomedical Engineering and editor-in-chief~of the Journal of Biomechemical Eng~ne~ring. He was a cochairman of the First World Congress of Biomechanics in 1990, and a cochair of the 1997 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting.
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RICHARD SKALAK 259 ful friend and a superb human being. His spirit, his thoughts, and his deeds have spread to all parts of the world and will be a guiding light for generations to come.
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