Advisors

Faculty Advisor Lin Shen

Dr. Shen is currently a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with the UHM College of Engineering. He specializes in Materials and Concrete Technology. He was initiated as a Chi Epsilon member when becoming the UHM Chapter Faculty Advisor in 2019.

He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2007; his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2002; and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University, China in 1999.

He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of California. He was a Senior Research Engineer with Kal Krishnan Consulting Services, Inc. in Oakland, CA, from August 2007 to June 2011. He received the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award and the Hi Chang Chai Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013.

Role of the Faculty Advisor: The Faculty Advisor is to act in an advisory capacity to the chapter. Faculty Advisors must be a member of Chi Epsilon, and are to be elected by the chapter for a term of two years, and may be re-elected any number of times.

National President / Pacific District Councilor Randall (Randy) Akiona

Mr. Akiona was initiated into Chi Epsilon in April 1969 at Cornell University (Chapter #5, installed in 1925). Mr. Akiona was an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the UHM from August 1998 through July 2006. He specializes in Construction Management. He served as Chi Epsilon’s faculty advisor from 2000 to 2006. He was elected to Chi Epsilon’s Pacific District Councilor in 2002 and its National Vice-President in 2010. In August 2006, he joined the faculty of the UHM School of Architecture to become Director of an interdisciplinary program emphasizing construction management. He continues to teach construction management courses in the Civil Engineering Department. Prior to joining the UHM faculty, he was employed by Royal Contracting Co., Ltd. as a project manager, engineer, and estimator from 1983 to 1998 and as an estimator for Moses Akiona, Ltd. from 1973 to 1983.

Mr. Akiona graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1970. In 1971, he received an MS in Construction Management from Stanford University. He received the Hi Chang Chai Excellence in Teaching Award given by the College of Engineering, UHM, in May 2001 and again in May 2005. He currently serves on the Education Committees of the National Associated General Contractors of America and the General Contractors of Hawaii.