China Vitae

Biography

Qian Zhonghan, male, is of Han nationality. He was born in 1911 and graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1933.

Qian has made several achievements in thermotechnical automation and was one of the first doctoral supervisors in China. He began his thermotechnical automation research during the late 1950s and then set up a special research lab of thermotechnical automation in 1963 and expanded it into the Automation Research Center in 1983. The Center has dealt with production theory and application, system engineering and emulation technology, and has won many ministerial and provincial scientific achievement awards. The Automation Research Center has also published several professional teaching books and dissertations at many international academic meetings and in academic periodicals both at home and abroad. Qian is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Qian also participated in the formation of national scientific planning since the founding of the PRC and made a series of high-level research achievements in the fields of mechanics, electro-machinery, thermo-technology, automation and natural dialectical. He is the pioneer of China's thermotechnical automation science and has made several contributions in terms of education management, discipline development, cultivation of the teacher's team and teaching.