User talk:Nguyen Cao Don

Nguyen Cao Don (Nguyễn Cao Đon) is a Vietnamese personality. He successfully completed his education in primary, secondary and high schools in Ha Tay. In 1981, he joined the Hanoi Water Resources University under the scholarship funded by the Vietnamese government to study Hydraulic work engineering with specialization in structural design and analysis, and graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree and immediately started working as a consulting engineer in the National Institute of Hydraulic Investigation and Design, Ministry of Water Resources.

He left this position in 1996 and joined School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, for pursuing a Master degree study in Water Resources Management, with the scholarship sponsored by the Royal Danish Government. He graduated with a M.Eng. degree in 1998 with the thesis entitled “Application of interior boundary conditions in unsteady flow computation”. This research work was funded by the DANIDA (Danish International Development Assistance) - AIT fellowship program. After that, he returned back to the National Institute of Hydraulic Investigation and Design (now named as the Hydraulic Engineering Consultants-HEC) to continue his career as a project manager until 1999. During this term, he was also an appraisal specialist in ISO-9001 quality assessment.

In 2000, he again entered a postgraduate study in Hanoi Water Resources University with a research “Estimation and simulation of dynamic wave forces acting onto coastal hydraulic structures”.

In 2001, he later won a scholarship from Monbusho, the Japanese government for further Ph.D. study in Environment science and Engineering at Saga University, Japan. He started his Ph.D. research in the beginning of 2002 and completed the research at the end of 2003.

Since 1992, he has consulted many benefiting projects and published over 30 scientific papers in English and Vietnamese as a senior author or as a co-author.