Wu Minsheng (; August 1946 – 7 September 2019) was a Chinese mechanical engineer. He served as Dean of

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

and President of

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(2002–2010).

Biography

Wu Minsheng was born in August 1946 into a farming and fishing family in

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Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

, Republic of China. He entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering of

in 1965, and became a faculty member after graduating in 1970. He later studied in Germany and earned a

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degree from

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. Wu was a pioneer in weld seam tracking technology in China. He published more than 100 research papers and several monographs. He taught for nearly fifty years, and was appointed Dean of Tsinghua University in 1993. He later served as Vice President of Tsinghua Graduate School and the first President of Tsinghua's

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graduate school. In August 2002, Wu was appointed President of

. During his tenure of almost eight years, he worked to raise funds and enhance the prestige of the university. Under his leadership, the university's research funding multiplied from less than 20 million yuan in 2002 to more than 100 million by 2007. He retired from the position in May 2010. Wu died in

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

on September 7, 2019, at age 73.

References

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