Yang Shi'e


Yang Shi'e was a Chinese engineer who was vice president of Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering from 1982 to 1987, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was one of the founders of China's underwater acoustic engineering discipline.

Biography

Yang was born in the British concession of Tianjin, on 9 August 1931, to Yang Tingbao, an architect and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chen Faqing. His grandfather was a politician who was magistrate of Nanyang Prefecture during the Republic of China. He attended Chongqing Nankai Secondary School and the High School Affiliated to National Central University. In 1947, he enrolled at Tsinghua University, where he majored in the Department of Physics.
After university in 1950, he taught at Dalian First Naval School and participated in the establishment of the People's Liberation Army Military Engineering University in December 1952. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. He studied at the Andreyev Acoustics Institute between 1957 and 1959. He returned to China in November 1959 and continued to teach at the People's Liberation Army Military Engineering University.
Yang was recruited as a professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2000.
On 19 March 2024, he died in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 92.

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