Assoc. Prof. Dr Nguyễn Tiến Cường
Lecturer of the Department of Bridges and Tunnels (1966–1972)
Biography
Mr Nguyễn Tiến Cường graduated with the 6th intake and joined the Department in 1966, while the National University of Civil Engineering was evacuated to Hà Bắc. In 1967 he joined the Department’s Tunnel group and was sent to gain experience on the construction of the tunnels of the Thái Nguyên – Kép railway; in 1968 he joined the programming and computing group led by Mr Trần Bình and was among the first to train engineers inside and outside the University to program structural calculations. In 1972 he joined the army. He co-wrote the book Fundamentals of Underground Structure Design (1981), edited by Mr Lê Văn Thưởng; he later became Deputy Director of the Institute for Building Science and Technology and Deputy Director of the Construction Quality Inspection Department of the Ministry of Construction.
Textbooks and books
Titles as published, in Vietnamese; each links to its entry on the Textbooks and books page.
Biography compiled from the department’s 50-year yearbook (1959–2009), the textbook catalogue and the group’s archived posts. Read the history of the group