ME Professor Ronald Yeung, from the department’s Ocean Engineering Group, received the Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering OOAE Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering OMAE conference. Professor Yeung was presented with an engraved plaque from OOAE/ASME during the OMAE2016-Busan Award Luncheon, on June 21, 2106. This prestigious honor is made “in grateful recognition of his significant life-time contributions to the fields of hydromechanics and ocean engineering as a distinguished scholar.” Professor Yeung is the inaugural faculty holder of the American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering at UC Berkeley. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged the many efforts of his collaborators and students during his 43-year professional career and briefly reflected on the essence and breadth of the field.
 
The OOAE  Division is the flagship division of ASME for promoting advances in ocean technology and its scientific support by academia and industry.  OOAE sponsors the popular annual conference of OMAE, with typically more than 1,000 attendees.
 
Congratulations, Professor Yeung!
 
A moment of happy reflection at the podium.
 
From Left: Qiuchen Guo 2014, Qian Zhong 2015, Nathan Tom 2013, Daewoong Son 2016, Alexia Aubault 2005, Prof. R.W. Yeung, Dominique Roddier 2000, Jangwhan Kim 1997, Chunfa Wu 1990, Antoine Peiffer 2008, X. Zhang 2015
 
Acceptance speech to the OMAE attendees.