Surendra P. Shah, visiting professor at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, was recently inducted into the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) as a foreign member. Shah is one of only four engineers in the world—and the only civil engineer—who is a member of the CAE and the United States National Academy of Engineering and a fellow in the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He will join the college full time in January.