Since being named to the Academia Sinica in 1972, he has often returned to Taiwan, being one of the few long term scholars there to maintain close ties at home.
民國六十一年，他以在造橋工程上的卓越貢獻，被選為我國第九屆中央研究院院士，自此以後經常自美回國，是少數與國內關係密切的元老級院士之一。