Dr. Zhong Jue-Central South University

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Dr. Zhong Jue

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Expert in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Processing

Dr. Zhong Jue, born on 1 September 1936 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, with ancestral roots in Xian County, Hebei, is a distinguished mechanical engineer and a pioneer of the academic concepts of “extreme manufacturing” and “harmonious manufacturing”. A Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at CSU, he entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology in 1955 and, after graduating in 1960, joined the Central-South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, where he successively served as Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Zhong was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995, named a National Model Worker in 2000, awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2002, and in December 2009 elected Chair of both the Sixth Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education and its Strategic Research Advisory Committee. In 2011, he received the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Implementation of China’s 11th Five-Year National Science and Technology Program. He has dedicated his career to research and education in mechanical engineering and materials processing, focusing on large-scale materials manufacturing equipment, complex electromechanical system design and integration, and manufacturing equipment for microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.

Biography

From 1955, when applying for university admission, Dr. Zhong Jue chose mechanical engineering as his dedicated field of study and was admitted to the Metallurgical Machinery Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology.

Upon completing his bachelor’s degree in 1960, he was assigned to the Central-South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (now CSU) in Changsha, Hunan Province, where he embarked on a lifelong career in teaching and research in metallurgical machinery. Over the years, he successively served as Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dean of the School of Electromechanical Engineering.

Dr. Zhong was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995 (Division of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Mechanical Design and Theory).

He was named a National Model Worker in 2000 and received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2002.

In December 2009, he was elected Chair of both the Sixth Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education and its Strategic Research Advisory Committee.

In 2011, he received the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Implementation of China’s 11th Five-Year National Science and Technology Program.

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