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Professor Shao-Yen Ko on his 70th birthday

Professor Shao-Yen Ko celebrated his 70th birthday
last year. In honor of this anniversary, we wish to takethis opportunity to acknowledge his many outstanding contributions and pioneering achievements
during his carrier as a research scientist and teacher
in the field of heat transfer.
Professor Ko was born on 1 May 1925 in Taian,Shandong Province, China. He studied at Wu-Han
University during 1943-1947 and majored in mechanical engineering. He got his BS degree in June 1947.
He worked as a teaching assistant in National SunYet-Shan University, Canton, for 1 year and moved toNational Shandonlg University, Tsingdao, for anotheryear. Then he went to the U.S.A. for his graduate
studies.
He got his MS ,degree from Oklahoma State University in June 1951. Then he got his PhD from Illinois
Institute of Technology in June 1955 under the direction of Professors, Max Jakob and H. Sogins. Heworked as a senior research scientist at the ResearchCenter of the Honeywell Co. in Minneapolis, MN,
during 1955-1957.
He made a 6-month academic visit to Europe,including Imperial College in London, before he
returned back to Beijing, China, in the earlier part ofMay 1958. Then he joined the Power Laboratory (nowknown as the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Ko has been a research professor andhead of the Heat and Mass Transfer Division, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 1980. He has worked broadly
in diverse areas of heat and mass transfer, publishingsix books and more than 80 technical papers (about40% in English). Many of his papers have been exten-sively quoted in the international literature. His book
Film Cooling won a national prize for natural sciencein 1987.
As one of the pioneers, Professor Ko played an
important role in the education of thermal sciences inChina. He ws a prime promoter in the establishment
and development of heat transfer education in theChinese University of Science and Technology, fromwhich several hundred heat transfer scientists andengineers received their degrees. Professor Ko is alsoa guest professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian Jiao-Tong University and Beijing Polytechnic University.
In addition to his six journal editorships, Professor
Ko has been an associate editor of the International
Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. He has mademany contributions to scientific exchange and cooperation in the international heat transfer community.
Invited by many universities and institutes, Professor
Ko has lectured in the U.S.A., Russia, Japan, U.K.,
Italy, Ukraine, Israel, Bulgaria, Hong Kong and theformer Yugoslavia. Professor Ko was invited 5 times
as a visiting professor by Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, from 1980 to 1991 to carry out joint
research projects on film cooling and other related
topics such as non-Newtonian fluids heat transfer
enhancement, besides a regular teaching load. Professor Ko was also invited as a visiting professor bySeoul National University during the school year of
1994-1995 to give graduate courses on gas turbine
and advanced heat transfer.

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