Sun Wei (engineer)

This article is about a Chinese civil engineer. For other people, see Sun Wei.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Sun.

Sun Wei (Chinese: 孙伟; 20 November 1935 – 22 February 2019) was a Chinese civil engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).^[1]

Sun Wei
孙伟
Born	(1935-11-20)20 November 1935 Jiaozhou, Shandong, China
Died	22 February 2019(2019-02-22) (aged 83) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Alma mater	Southeast University
Scientific career
Fields	Civil engineering and materials science
Institutions	Southeast University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	孫偉
Simplified Chinese	孙伟
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sūn Wěi

Biography

Sun was born in Jiaozhou, Shandong, on 20 November 1935. She graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in July 1958 and became a faculty member. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. She was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to full professor in 1991.^[2]

She published over 400 scientific papers and five monographs. In 2005, she was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).^[1]

She died of an illness in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on 22 February 2019.^[1]

References

1. 孙伟院士逝世 [Academician Sun Wei passed away]. People's Daily (in Chinese). 23 February 2019.
2. 84岁中国工程院院士孙伟逝世，今年已痛失6位院士 [Sun Wei, 84, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, passed away]. Phoenix Television (in Chinese). 23 February 2019.