Prof Chia-Pei Chou

Distinguished Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

National Taiwan University

Prof Chia-Pei Chou received her MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. After working one year at the Texas DOT, she joined the Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1989. Since then she has been actively conducting researches in the areas of inspection, evaluation, and management of highway as well as airports pavement facilities, motor vehicle size and weight studies for the past 27 years. She has developed the Pavement Management Systems for the National Freeway Bureau, General Highway Bureau, and the Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan. The Civil Aviation Administration specification of runway skid resistance inspection and measurement was established through her research work. Moreover, the heavy vehicle size and weight regulations of Taiwan have been revised by the Congress Legislators based on her research findings and recommendations. Most recently, she initiated and completed two Chinese National Standards (CNS) for verifying the inertial profiler and develops a Center for Pavement Profiler Verification in Taiwan.

She has published more than 220 journal and conference papers, and 78 research reports. She has supervised 80 master students and 12 PhD students during these years. Prof Chou was awarded the Outstanding and Excellent Teaching Awards of NTU four times and has been promoted as the Distinguished Professor since May 2009. She also received nine Annual Best Paper Awards offered by international and domestic professional engineering societies. In additional to her pavement specialties, she was appointed as the Director of the Center for International Academic Exchange of NTU between 2002 and 2005 and CEO of Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan during 2007 and 2008. On those jobs, she hosted and attended numerous international educational conferences to deal with international collaborative programs among universities. She was appointed as the Associate Dean of College of Engineering from 2008 to 2010. From July 2011 to January 2016 she was seconded to Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology and worked as the Director of Science and Technology Division in Houston and Washington DC as Science and Technology Diplomat for four and a half years. 

 

Since January 2016, she has rejoined the NTU as the Distinguished Professor of Department of Civil Engineering. Her most recent research works include, but not limited to, developing the bicycle-riding simulation model for evaluating bike route smoothness, systematic assessment of smartphone-based method of pavement roughness evaluation, city street network management, and the assessment/improvement of skid resistance capability and retroreflectivity of road marking.