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 ...

(CAE).

Biography

Sun was born in

Jiaozhou Jiaozhou may refer to: * Jiaozhou Bay, a sea gulf in Qingdao, Shandong, China * Jiaozhou City, a county-level city near the bay * Jiaozhou (region), an ancient region which included modern North Vietnam, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan ** Jiaozhi

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

Southeast University Southeast University (SEU, ) is a public research university located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It was formed from one of the oldest universities and the first coeducational university in China, and designated as a member of the Double First ...

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

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

in 1956. She was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to full professor in 1991. She published over 400 scientific papers and five monographs. In 2005, she was elected an academician of the

(CAE). She died of an illness in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and t ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its c ...

, on 22 February 2019.

References

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