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Barry Onouye is a structural engineer, emeritus faculty member in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, and author of multiple textbooks on structural engineering and design.

Onouye was born and raised in Hawaii. He received his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii in 1967 and his M.S.E. in structural engineering from the University of Washington in 1969. Onouye served as a teaching assistant in the Department of Architecture in 1967, and as a part-time lecturer in the Department in 1968. He began teaching structures in the Department of Architecture as a lecturer on a full-time basis in 1969. He became a Senior Lecturer about 1990 and retired about 2009.