Academy of Distinguished Alumni

  • Alumni Image #1:
  • Image Caption Title #1: Hsuehshan Highway Tunnel - Taiwan
  • Image Caption #1: Shen led RSEA Engineering Corp, the largest construction firm in Taiwan in the building of highway systems, construction of water resources projects, and the world’s fourth longest highway tunnel connecting the west to the east of the island in Taiwan. Under his leadership, the firm also has many governmental international construction projects involving power generation and water resources for agriculture.
  • Alumni Image #2:
  • Image Caption Title #2: Taipei 101 Tower - Taipei, Taiwan
  • Image Caption #2: At RSEA, Shen also helped complete construction on The Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center – is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District. The building also represents a worldwide precedent for sustainable skyscraper development.

Ching Peng Shen

Ching-Peng Shen

B.S. Taiwan Provincial Maritime College, 1966
M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1977

During Ching-Peng Shen's 25+ years of service for RSEA Engineering Corporation, many important civil infrastructure projects in Asia were completed, including rapid transits, tunnels, hydraulic power plants, highways, bridges, buildings and more. An internationally acclaimed geotechnical and construction engineer, he is currently on the Board of Directors for Radium Life Technology Company, one of the major developers in Taiwan.

Shen received his B.S. in river and harbor engineering from the Taiwan Provincial Maritime College (now the National Taiwan Ocean University) in 1966. After his graduation, he worked for four years at the Keelung Harbor Bureau, located at the northern tip of Taiwan. He then joined the working team for the design of the first 100,000-tonnage shipbuilding dry dock in Taiwan and was later assigned to the new Taichung Harbor Planning and Construction Office on the west coast of Taiwan.

Shen worked as a junior engineer on the new harbor construction project for 13 years before becoming head of the Harbor Construction Department. During this period, the government supported his pursuit of advanced studies in geotechnical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received an M.S. in 1977. He then returned to work for the Taichung Harbor Bureau.

In 1982, after the completion of the harbor's first stage of construction, he was transferred to the Retired Serviceman Engineering Agency (RSEA), the biggest construction organization in Taiwan. In 1998, RSEA was reorganized as RSEA Engineering Corporation, and Shen was assigned to be the first chairman until his retirement in 2007.

Among his completed projects are the 508-meter-high Taipei 101 Tower, the highest in the world until 2007, and the 12.9-kilometer long, double-tube, two-way Hsuehshan highway tunnel, the longest in Southeast Asia. From 2002 to 2004, Shen was elected president of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), the largest engineering institute in Taiwan.