Zhang Zhongjun (; 1913–1995), also known as Tsun-Tsing Chang or T.T. Chang, was a Chinese electrical engineer and a member of the

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Biography

Zhang was born in

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Province in 1913. He attended

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and was awarded a BSE (electrical engineering) in 1934. Upon graduation he set out to the United States to continue his studies at the

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and was awarded a S.M. (Science Master) within 9 months, and SC.D.(Doctor of Science) in Electrical Engineering and minor in mathematics in 1938. He was a Rockefeller Scholar and stayed on as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, after completing his studies. As World War II broke out he followed the Nationalist Government to

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and

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. He taught graduate classes at the

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until the end of war. Zhang returned to and worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering at

from 1945. He was head of Electrical Engineering department and director of Electrical Research Institute.

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, later

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(

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of China), was one of his students. He was advising the Shanghai Power Company and worked on the restoration of power outage from Nationalist Chinese air raid and Naval blockade. In the 1950s, he designed and established the electric power simulation system of Shanghai. In the mid-1950s he was a delegate of China to Soviet Union on electrical power research. After the 1960s his interest turned to the field of control engineering and founded Department of Automation & cybernatics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was elected a member of the

in 1980. 1913 births 1995 deaths Chinese electrical engineers Educators from Jiaxing Engineers from Zhejiang MIT School of Engineering alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences National Chiao Tung University (Shanghai) alumni Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University {{China-scientist-stub