Cheng Gengdong (; born September 1941), also known as Geng-Dong Cheng, is a Chinese civil engineer and physicist who specializes in

engineering mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

and

computational mechanics Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third w ...

. He is a professor at the

Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology (DUT) (), colloquially known in Chinese as Dagong (), is a public research university located in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with an additional campus in Panjin, Liaoning. Established in April 1949, it is the ...

and served as President from 1995 to 2006. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

and a foreign fellow of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

Biography

Cheng was born in

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

in September 1941. After graduating from

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1964, he pursued postgraduate studies at the

(DUT) from 1964 to 1968. He earned his Ph.D. from the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's fi ...

in 1980. In the early 1980s, Cheng, together with

Zhong Wanxie Zhong Wanxie (; born 24 February 1934), also known as Wan-Xie Zhong, is a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. He is a professor at the Dalian University of Technology who specializes in computational mechanics and engineering mechanics. He pion ...

and their advisor

Qian Lingxi Qian Lingxi (; 26 July 1916 – 20 April 2009), also known as Tsien Ling-hi, was a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. An authority on engineering structural mechanics and computational mechanics, he served as President of the Dalian Universit ...

, developed DDDU, an advanced computer system for structural design. DDDU was used in many major engineering projects. Cheng served as Vice President of DUT from 1985 to 1995, and as President from 1995 to 2006. He published more than 200 research papers, three monographs, and two translated books. Cheng was elected an academician of the

in 1995, and a foreign fellow of the

in 2011. He won the

State Natural Science Award The State Science and Technology Prizes () are the highest honors conferred by the national government of the People's Republic of China in science and technology, in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contribut ...

(Second Class) twice, the

Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (HLHL, ) is a Hong Kong-based non-government organisation which annually bestows prizes upon Chinese scientists. It was established on 30 March 1994, with funds donated from the charitable foundations of Ho Sin Han ...

in Mathematics and Mechanics, and many other awards. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by

Aalborg University Aalborg University (AAU) is a Danish public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen founded in 1974. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within humanities ...

of Denmark and the

University of Liège The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...

of Belgium.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheng, Gengdong 1941 births Living people Chinese civil engineers Chinese expatriates in Denmark Dalian University of Technology faculty Educators from Suzhou Engineers from Jiangsu Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Peking University alumni Physicists from Jiangsu Scientists from Suzhou Technical University of Denmark alumni