Memorial Tributes Volume 25 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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SAU-HAI LAM
SAU-HAI LAM
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As an educator, he perfected the departmental pregeneral interview process, creating a deep and personal learning experience for generations of graduate students. He would generally start with "tell me something you know," and students quickly found out that knowledge requires understanding and reasoning and cannot be acquired by simply memorizing formulas.
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Harvey viewed himself as a "theorist" who focused on interesting theoretical and mathematical issues associated with engineering problems. His research included d ynamics of ionized gases, thermionic energy conversion, reduced chemistry modeling of complex combustion systems, d ynamics of boundary layers and turbulence, and nonlinear control theories.
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1985. Singular perturbation for stiff equations using numerical methods.
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When it became clear that returning to China was not an option, a friend convinced him to apply to graduate school. On the RPI Aeronautical Engineering Department's bulletin board, he saw a flyer about the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Laboratories.
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He received the Princeton University Engineering Council Teaching Award in 1993, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. Harvey was skilled in Chinese calligraphy and accomplished as a clay sculptor.
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