Honorary degree citation - Wei Yu

By: Patrick Kenniff, June 1988

Mr. Chancellor, I have the honour to present to you Wei Yu, a leading academic in the People’s Republic of China, the first woman in the country to have earned a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and the President of the Nanjing Institute of Technology, one of China’s leading national universities which has joined with Concordia in establishing in 1985 a pioneering joint doctoral programme.

Educated to the Master’s level in Electronic Engineering at the Institute she now heads, Dr. Wei was a prolific researcher in the fields of micro-wave electronics and electromagnetic theory long before obtaining, in 1981, her doctorate in Engineering from the Technischen Hochschule in Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany. She has since expanded her interests to the area of bioelectronics, and was responsible for setting up the Biomedical Department at N.I.T.

Dr. Wei’s expanding range of research interests and her involvement in academic administration have not prevented her from being extraordinarily active in professional organizations. She is Vice-Director of the Chinese Higher Education Society, Vice