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For pioneering the investigation of hydrologic problems from the perspective of fluid mechanics and the development of computer models in the holistic modeling of watersheds; for being one of the first researchers to work on urban storm water drainage and for being the founding member of the Chinese American Water Resources Association. Professor Ben Chie Yen educated and inspired students who became civil and environmental engineering leaders around the world. Ben Chie Yen served on the CEE at Illinois faculty for 35 years (1966-2001). He was an internationally recognized leader in hydraulics and hydrology. His major contributions were in open-channel hydraulics, urban drainage, watershed hydrology, and reliability and uncertainty analyses in hydro-engineering. He worked with Ven Te Chow, pioneering the investigation of hydrologic problems from the perspective of fluid mechanics and the development of computer models in the holistic modeling of watersheds. Yen was one of the first researchers to work on urban storm water drainage. Yen died in 2001

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Universities and Academia

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