Sun Wei (; 20 November 1935 – 22 February 2019) was a Chinese

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

and an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...

(CAE).

Biography

Sun was born in Jiaozhou,

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

, on 20 November 1935. She graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now

Southeast University Southeast University (SEU) is a public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Its precursor, ...

) in July 1958 and became a faculty member. She joined the

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in 1956. She was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to full professor in 1991. She published over 400 scientific papers and five

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s. In 2005, she was elected an academician of the

(CAE). She died of an illness in

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, on 22 February 2019.

References

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