About Chen Shilu
Lived 1920 – 2016 (aged 95). Chen Shilu was a Chinese scientist.
Chen Shilu (; 24 September 1920 – 24 April 2016) was a Chinese flight mechanics expert, educator and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Biography Chen was born in Dongyang County, Zhejiang. He obtained a bachelor's degree of aeronautical engineering from National Southwestern Associated University in 1945. He became a teaching assistant in National Southwestern Associated University (1945–1946) and Tsinghua University (1946–1948) after his graduation. He taught at National Chiao Tung University as a lecturer in 1948. Chen moved to Eastern China Aeronautics Institute in 1952 due to the adjustment for university colleges and departments in China.
Chen returned to Northwestern Polytechnical University and founded the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 1959.
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Chen Shilu was born on 24 September 1920 in Dongyang.
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Chen Shilu died on 24 April 2016 in Xi'an.
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