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William Yau (姚火草)

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William Yau (姚火草)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: William Yau
  • Chinese: 姚火草
  • Era: 1940
  • Geography: 台灣台南市
  • Core roles: engineer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台北工專 — 1962 — B.S., C.E. — Univ. of Colorado, Boulder — 1970 — M.S., C.E.

Employment

  • Stearns Roger — 1973-75 — Structural Eng. — Bateman Engineering Ltd — 1981-83 — Chief Structural Eng.

Family

Role in the Community

  • Profiled in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who as community historical record 2017 (published 2017-03-20, value band B).
  • Spouse Linda Yi-Fang Yau 劉義芳 holds her own TAH Who’s Who page; the couple are part of the Tainan-origin engineer cohort in the Taiwanese American community.
  • Corpus scan found no memoir/letter material beyond the bibliographic record; engineering career facts stand as sourced from the TAH table.

Sources

Work log

  • SKIP (deepen-x slice 09231500-7, 2026-09-25): fresh ZH+EN grep of content/works + content/articles returned only the person’s own TAH Who’s Who record + index (no memoir/community material beyond what is already cited); page saturated, nothing absorbable.
  • SKIP (deepen-x slice 09251031-9, 2026-09-26): fresh ZH+EN grep of content/works + content/articles returned only the hit set already absorbed by this page (own TAH record + index, plus previously cited works); nothing new absorbable.
  • 2026-10-06 re-sweep (deepen-x slice 10051314-5): fresh ZH+EN grep across all corpus dirs — hits remain only own record 1565. William Yau 姚火草 + works index + sources page; no memoir/community material. SKIP, saturated.
  • 2026-10-08 re-sweep (deepen-x slice 10062334-25): fresh ZH+EN grep (-E) across works/articles/sources/events/topics → hit set unchanged (own TAH #1565 + index + sources hub); given-name sweep 火草 hits only spouse 劉義芳’s family link and index rows. Verified-saturated; SKIP.

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