Tu Shandong
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Power engineering
Tu Shandong | |||||||
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| Born | November 1961 (age 63) Yongding District, Longyan, Fujian, China | ||||||
| Alma mater | Nanjing Tech University | ||||||
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| Fields | Machinery Power engineering | ||||||
| Institutions | East China University of Science and Technology | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 塗善東 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 涂善东 | ||||||
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Tu Shandong (Chinese: 涂善东; born November 1961) is a Chinese engineer specializing in machinery and power engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and formerly served as vice-president of East China University of Science and Technology.[1] He is an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham, a member of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) and the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES).
Tu was born in November 1961 in Yongding District, Longyan, Fujian, while his ancestral home in Dabu County, Guangdong. His grandfather, Tu Yanfan (涂演凡; 1885–1944), was a revolutionist and educator and a member of the Tongmenghui.[2][3] Both his father Tu Xiangsheng (涂祥生) and mother Zeng Chunying (曾纯英) were teachers.[2][3] He has two older brothers.[2] After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he enrolled at Nanjing Tech University, where he received his master's degree and doctor's degree in 1985 and 1988, respectively. In 1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Southwest Jiaotong University under the supervision of Sun Xunfang (孙训方) and Gao Qing (高庆). In 1990 he was hired as a guest scientist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Beginning in 1993, he served in several posts at his alma mater Nanjing Tech University, including associate professor, full professor, and vice-president. He briefly served as a Brain Pool Scholar at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He was recruited as a professor at East China University of Science and Technology in November 2011, becoming vice-president in June 2006.[2][4]
