Sun Wei (engineer)

{{Short description|Chinese civil engineer (1935–2019)}}

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Sun Wei ({{zh|s=孙伟}}; 20 November 1935 – 22 February 2019) was a Chinese civil engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).{{cite news |date=2019-02-23 |title= |script-title=zh:孙伟院士逝世 |trans-title=Academician Sun Wei passed away |url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0223/c87393-30898410.html |work=People's Daily |language=zh}}

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.{{cite news |date=2019-02-23 |title= |script-title=zh:84岁中国工程院院士孙伟逝世,今年已痛失6位院士 |trans-title=Sun Wei, 84, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, passed away |url=http://news.ifeng.com/c/7kWROhgQV9i |work=Phoenix Television |language=zh}}

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

She died of an illness in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on 22 February 2019.

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