Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Expert in Refractory Metal Materials, Rare-Earth Functional Materials, and Aluminium–Magnesium Materials and Processing Technologies

Dr. Zuo Tieyong, born in Beijing in 1936, is a materials scientist and circular-economy expert, and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has served as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at CSU and Beijing University of Technology. Dr. Zuo entered the metal forming program at the Northeast Institute of Technology in 1954 and, after graduating in 1958, began his academic career at the Central South University of Technology, where he successively served as Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Vice President. In 1991, he was appointed Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology of the State Education Commission. He was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995 and became President of Beijing University of Technology in 1996. He was named a Beijing Municipal Model Worker in 2000. In 2003, he became President of the Branch for Local University Education Research under the China Association of Higher Education, and in 2005, he was appointed Dean of the Institute of Circular Economy at Beijing University of Technology. Dr. Zuo received the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award in 2006 and the Third National Teaching Master Award of the Ministry of Education in 2007, and was recognized as an Influential Figure in 30 Years of Reform and Opening-Up in China’s Nonferrous Metals Industry that same year. In 2012, he received the Outstanding Contribution Award for Industry-University-Research Collaboration from the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association. His research has focused on refractory metal materials, rare-earth functional materials, and aluminium–magnesium materials and their processing technologies.

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