Wu Jinghu, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, was born on May 29th, 1884. My father and uncle are both overseas Chinese living in the United States. He studied in a private school when he was a child. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, he went to America with his brother to live with his father. Because his family is not rich, he can only work and study. He first entered Xilin City Primary School in Massachusetts, USA, and then went to Xilin City Middle School, graduating from 1908. Only when family members allow financial aid can they enter the university. At that time, he was admitted to Rensselaer Institute of Technology in new york. When he was in college, he also used his vacation to earn money and worked as an intern at the Delaware River Railway Company. 19 12 graduated from Summer University with a degree of civil engineer. After graduation, I worked for the Delaware River Railway Company. He personally realized that white Americans despise colored people and discriminate against overseas Chinese, and staying in the United States is like relying on others. At that time, China had already started to build railways, and there was a shortage of engineering talents. Driven by national pride and the original intention of building roads and rejuvenating the country, he decided to leave the United States and return to China.
19 13 In the summer, Wu Jinghu returned to China and worked as an assistant engineer in Yichang section of Hankou of Sichuan-Han Railway. 19 14 was transferred to Beijing-Suiyuan Railway as a public engineer. At this time, Wu accidentally met his friend in the United States, Zhao Shibei, president of Beijing Tangshan Institute of Technology, and invited him to teach at the school. He resigned and left the railway. 19 15 After the summer vacation, I went to Tangshan Institute of Technology (predecessor of Tangshan Jiaotong University, now Southwest Jiaotong University) to teach. Since then, he has never left, and he has never wavered, even though he was displaced from place to place with the school. Known as one of the "Five Elders" of Tangshan Jiaotong University (five outstanding representatives in the teaching team of Tangshan Jiaotong University with rigorous scholarship, admirable academic attainments and lofty personality charm, are honored as five elders by teachers and students, including Luo, Gu, Wu Jinghu, Huang Gongfu and Li). Wu Jinghu has been a teacher of civil and railway engineering in Tangyuan for a long time. He is the first professor in China to teach railway engineering courses. He also served as director of the Department of Civil Engineering, general affairs director and educational director, and briefly acted as dean. /kloc-0 was a research professor in the summer of 1952,/kloc-0 retired in 1955,/kloc-0 died in Tangshan on August 9, 1974 at the age of 9 1. 1884 was born on may 29th in Taishan county, Guangdong province.
1897- 1908 graduated from middle school in Xilin, Massachusetts, USA.
1908- 19 12, Rensselaer University of Technology, new york, USA, obtained the degree of civil engineer.
1912-1913 internship in Delaware river railway company.
1913-1914 returned from the United States and worked as an assistant engineer in Yichang section of Sichuan-Han Railway.
1914-1915 Beijing-Suiyuan railway engineer.
19 15- 1937 Professor of Tangshan Institute of Technology, Tangshan College of Jiaotong University, Tangshan Jiaotong University, Tangshan Jiaotong University, Second Jiaotong University, Tangshan Civil Engineering College of Jiaotong University and Tangshan Engineering College of Jiaotong University.
1937- 1946 Professor, Tangshan Institute of Engineering, Jiaotong University (Xiangtan, Hunan); Professor of Beiping Railway Management College of National Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Fuquan County, Pingyue, Guizhou); National chiao tung university Guizhou Branch (now Fuquan County, Pingyue, Guizhou, and later moved to Dingjiaao, Bishan, Sichuan), professor and director of the Academic Affairs Office.
1946- 1955 Professor of Tangshan Institute of Technology, Tangshan Institute of Technology of China Jiaotong University, Tangshan Institute of Technology of Northern Jiaotong University and Tangshan Railway Institute.
1955 retired.
1974 died in Tangshan on August 9th. 19 15 In the summer, Wu Jinghu went to Tangshan Jiaotong University and taught courses such as road engineering and engineering drawing, plane survey, geodesy and astronomy. , and led the summer survey practice, hydrological survey practice, railway survey and field survey practice. 192 1 year later, he also taught railway surveying and mapping, railway engineering, railway economy, railway engineering, railway management and other courses, and guided surveying practice and graduation design. Wu Jinghu is knowledgeable and engaged in higher education of railway engineering all his life, which has developed and enriched the teaching content of railway engineering and laid the foundation for the development of this discipline. Since 19 10, Tangshan Jiaotong University has adopted a four-year academic system, and students have to complete a graduation thesis before graduation. Southwest Jiaotong University Library has more than 200 graduation papers from 1922 to 1948, including dozens of papers directed by Wu Jinghu, most of which are combined with actual engineering design (including measurement). The guiding ideology of topic selection is to enable students to do a comprehensive exercise according to the requirements of practical engineering and to comprehensively apply what they have learned. Professor Wu's idea of cultivating students' ability to solve practical problems combined with engineering practice is of great guiding significance to students' success.
In the long-term teaching practice, Professor Wu Jinghu attaches great importance to absorbing advanced technology, and is good at integrating new technologies and theories published in foreign magazines into the course teaching, and compiling handouts to supplement and revise the teaching materials. He not only attaches importance to students' understanding of theories and formulas, but also emphasizes the application of basic concepts and the ability to make concrete analysis according to specific situations. He is good at guiding students to do field survey practice, so that students can acquire the ability to solve practical problems. He believes that measuring (measuring), drawing (drawing) and calculating (calculating) are the basic skills of engineers and technicians, and attaches great importance to strict training and exercise in this respect in teaching. His practical and rigorous teaching style has played an important role in enabling graduates of Tangshan Jiaotong University to undertake practical work as soon as they leave school, and make rapid achievements, and keep a leading position among many school graduates. From 19 15 to 1952, many civil engineering graduates from Tangshan jiaotong university later became academicians of China academy of sciences and China academy of engineering (among them, Mao Yisheng, Lin Tongyan, Lin Tonghua, Huang Wanli, Zhang Wei, Yan Kai, etc. ) is a student of Professor Wu Jinghu. Most of the early railway construction experts in China graduated from Tangshan Jiaotong University, including many students of Professor Wu Jinghu. Professor Wu often says that students' grades are the highest reward for teachers. Alumni's outstanding contribution to the railway construction in China has realized Professor Wu Jinghu's patriotism of saving the country through education. Wu Jinghu is not only strict in teaching activities, but also amiable and approachable, and is deeply loved by students. His serious professionalism is well known.
He led the survey practice, visited all the survey groups all day, and pointed out the shortcomings and points that should be paid attention to in students' operation at any time in combination with the specific situation on the spot. This strict, responsible and earnest teaching style is ancient and strong, and it is still like the prime of life until the year before retirement, which is still fresh in the memory of students who have benefited a lot.
He resolutely implements the rules and regulations of the school and will never violate them. The exam scores are quite strict. For example, in the spring of 1933, the Japanese invaders invaded Jidong, and on April 22nd, the school was forced to move south to Shanghai. 1933 all graduating students leave school after taking the exam in Shanghai; However, due to illness, Jiang Dayuan failed to participate in the whole process of hydrological survey practice the year before last, nor did he achieve this result. Although Jiang has passed all the exams in Shanghai, Professor Wu still asked Jiang Sui's off-duty classmates to go to Tanggu for this internship during the summer vacation. As an intern in Jiangbu, Wu personally checked and completed the results and signed them to the registration group to issue Jiang's graduation certificate. 1In July 937, when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the school was forced to move southward to Yangjiatan, Xiangtan, and some progressive students went deep behind enemy lines to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. On July 1938, two students from the Department of Civil Engineering returned to school from the New Fourth Army. Because their department took part in anti-Japanese activities, the school allowed them to make up lessons in graduation exams. Examination results, except Professor Wu Jinghu 36, all other courses passed; According to the regulations of the school, those who score less than 40 points in the exam may not make up the exam. Professor Wu insisted on this school rule, so the two students didn't graduate until 1939 in Pingyao, Guizhou. Professor Wu has set a good example in gradually forming a strict school spirit in Tangshan Jiaotong University.
His care for students and unpretentious professionalism have handed down many good stories, which are still commendable. Cheating in exams is absolutely intolerable. If you find out in the morning, you will be fired in the afternoon. In order to prevent students from passing information in the toilet during the exam, he always accompanied the students to the toilet; When the school is in the flat moon, there is no electric light. In the afternoon exam, he brought his own candles to light candles for his classmates. 1938165438+10. In October, the Japanese invaders occupied Wuhan and occupied Changsha in northern Hunan. After the school moved from Yangjiatan in Xiangtan to Guilin, it was bombed by Japanese planes on February 2, 65438. The school's instruments, books and files were all lost, and the luggage and clothes of more than 80 students were all destroyed. After 65438+arrived in Liuzhou in mid-February, it was freezing, and it was very difficult for students who lost their luggage. Wu Jinghu paid his personal salary in advance and bought clothes and quilts for the needy students. The friendship between teachers and students is touching.