Yip-Wah Chung:This Northwestern professor says technical personnel spend three-quarters of their time using an under-developed skill-communication:This Northwestern professor says technical personnel spend three-quarters of their time using an under-developed skill-communication:This Northwestern professor says technical personnel spend three-quarters of their time using an under-developed skill-communication

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Yip-Wah Chung The Quick File: Yip-Wah Chung is a professor of materials science and engineering and (by courtesy) mechanical engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He obtained his bachelor's of science degree in physics and mathematics and master's of philosophy degree in physics from the University of Hong Kong. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977. Chung then joined Northwestern University, serving as director of the Center for Engineering Tribology from 1987-1992, department chair from 1992-1998, program officer in surface engineering and materials design at the U.S. National Science Foundation from 2003-2005 and visiting scientist at the Austrian Center of Competence in Tribology in 2012.