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SEQUENCE NR :
CSB92525185
USER-
ID: 43070-92APR28/10.52.06/A01
TITLE:
QIAN XUESEN
DOC REF :
KEJI RIBAO ( SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DAILY) (BEIJING)
(KERIE), 911026, NR 1026, 1
INF CTY :
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
INF DATE:
911026
COSATI :
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (05); GUIDED MISSILE
TECHNOLOGY ( 16)
UNCLASSIFIED
RELEASE :
NONE ( XX )
TEXT :
EXTRACT.
DOCUMENT CONTAINS 1 PHOTO.
QIAN XUELIN WAS BORN IN SHANGHAI ON 11 DECEMBER, 1911.
DURING
SUMMER
VACATION
OF
1934,
QIAN
XUELIN
HAD GRADUATED FROM
SHANGHAI 'S
JIAODA
UNIVERSITY
WITH
A
DEGREE IN RAILWAY MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
FROM
THE
.DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING, BUT HE HAD NOT YET
BEGUN
A
JOB.
HE
TESTED
FOR
AND WON A QINGHUA UNIVERSITY PUBLIC
SCHOLARSHIP
TO STUDY ABROAD IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN.
HIS TWO TUTORS WERE
WANG
ZHU
AND
WANG
SHIZHUO.
WANG
ZHU
WAS
ONE OF CHINA'S FIRST
AERONAUTICAL
ENGINEERING.
HE
DESIGNED
AND
BUILT CHINA'S FIRST
GENERATION
OF
AIRCRAFT.
HEW TAUGHT QIAN XUELIN TO PAY A GREAT DEAL
OF
ATTENTION
TO
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE AND THE PROBLEMS
OF MANUFACTURING.
IN
OCTOBER
OF 1936, QIAN XUELIN TRANSFERRED TO CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
OF
TECHNOLOGY .
AT
FIRST,
HE
WAS
A STUDENT OF VON KARMAN'S, AND
LATER
THE
TWO
WORKED
CLOSELY TOGETHER.
WHEN VON KARMAN FIRST SAW
HE
SAW
WAS
A
SHORT
SERIOUS
YOUNG
MAN
QIAN
XUELIN,
WHAT
WHO
ACCURATELY
ANSWERED
ALL THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY THE PROFESSOR. HIS
QUICKNESS
OF
MIND
AND ABUNDANT INTELLIGENCE EVENTUALLY MADE A DEEP
IMPRESSION
ON VON KARMAN. PROFESSOR VON KARMAN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
IN ENGINEERING
TO
EXTRACT
THE
PRINCIPLES OF THEORETICAL RESEARCH
TARGETS.
HE
ALSO
TAUGHT
HIM
HOW
TO
APPLY THEORY IN PRACTICAL
ENGINEERING PRACTICE.
PFN INFORMATION: PART 001
RELATES :
XUESEN QIAN IS A MEMBER OF SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIV.
PERSON :
PERS CTY :
QIAN, XUESEN
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
PERSDATA:
BIOGRAPHIC DATA, PHOTO
FACILITY :
SUBORD :
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
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FSUBORD :
PEN DATE :
FACILITY SUBORDINATION DATA 1934
1934
FACILITY :
FACL CTY :
PFN INFORMATION: PART 002
QINGHUA UNIV
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
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