Yang Shi'e

Yang Shi'e (; 9 August 1931 – 19 March 2024) was a Chinese engineer who was vice president of Harbin Institute of Shipbuilding Engineering (now Harbin Engineering University) 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 studied at the Andreyev Acoustics Institute between 1957 and 1959.

On 19 March 2024, he died in Harbin, Heilongjiang, at the age of 92.

Honours and awards July 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) 1998 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the Shipborne Torpedo Trajectory Tracking and Measurement System 2009 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the Low Noise Measurement Methods and Systems