Assoc. Prof. Dr Trần Bình

Biography

At the end of 1965 Mr Trần Bình defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis in the Soviet Union and joined the Department; he had researched pile foundations to keep traffic moving. While studying in the Soviet Union, he and Mr Lê Văn Thưởng identified early the use of computers for bridge analysis and design; with the support of Professor B.E. Ulisky, he mastered programming and the use of the Minsk-22 computer for structural analysis. In 1968 he led the group working on programming and computers towards the automation of bridge and road design; he gave courses on computing inside and outside the University and, with Messrs Nguyễn Trường Luyện and Nguyễn Tiến Cường, was among the first to train engineers to program structural calculations. In 1972 he was transferred to the Faculty of Basic Sciences as the first head of the Department of Informatics of the National University of Civil Engineering; he received the title of Associate Professor in 1984, later became Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Bình Định Province and was a Deputy of the National Assembly.