Ai Xing (; 24 August 1924 – 7 April 2018) was a Chinese

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and educator who specialized in

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(HSM) and tool materials. He was a longtime professor at

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and its predecessor Shandong University of Technology, and an academician of the

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Biography

Ai Xing was born 24 August 1924 in Dongxiang,

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into h ...

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. After graduating from

Xiamen University Xiamen University (; Southern Min: ''Ē-mn̂g-toā-o̍h''), colloquially known as Xia Da (; Southern Min: ''Hā-tāi''), is a national public research university in Xiamen, Fujian, China. Founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese patriotic ...

in 1948 with a bachelor of engineering degree, he was hired by the university as a faculty member. In September 1953, he moved to the Shandong University of Technology (), where he taught as a lecturer, associate professor, and then professor for the next 47 years. After the university was merged into

in July 2000, he became a professor of the School of Engineering of Shandong University. Ai specialized in high-speed machining and tool materials. He developed six types of ceramics machining tools, three of which were the first of their kind in the world. He also developed computer software for

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. He published more than 360 scientific papers and nine

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and textbooks. He also educated 33 doctoral students and more than 40 master students. He won more than 10 national, ministerial, or provincial science and technology prizes, and was elected to the

in 1999. Ai died on 7 April 2018 in

Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...

, at the age of 93.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ai, Xing 1924 births 2018 deaths People from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Engineers from Jiangxi Xiamen University alumni Academic staff of Xiamen University Academic staff of Shandong University Chinese mechanical engineers Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering