Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

No. 43 Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei 10607, Taiwan.

+886-2-27376569

ityang AT mail.ntust.edu.tw

• Following World War II, the construction industry promoted construction education because of the realization that large quantities of management personnel would be needed-Robert B. Harris (1918-2003)

• Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.-Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

• Mathematics is not a deductive science ... what you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork- Paul Halmos (1916- 2006)

• Wisdom begins in wonder- Socrates Σωκράτης (470-399 BC)