According to the official account of "South China University of Technology Alumni Association" on September 26, on September 23, South China University of Technology alumni and Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhang Youqi died in Hong Kong at the age of 88.
Alumni Zhang Youqi is an outstanding representative of outstanding talents from South China University of Technology. He is recognized by the academic community as one of the pioneers of finite element method . He has been determined for decades and has made great contributions to the country in the field of engineering and education. He always cared about his alma mater and was grateful, believing that the impact of South China Science and Technology on him was a lifetime.
Zhang Youqi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born in Hong Kong on September 18, 1934. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of South China Institute of Technology (now South China University of Technology) in 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from . He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wells, England in 1964, a doctorate in science from the University of Wells, England in 1973, and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Aret, Australia in 1982. He is an expert in the fields of computational mechanics and civil engineering of architectural knots. He is an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1987), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999), a founding director of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (2001), an academician of the Canadian Academy of Sciences (2002), a director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Urban Construction Research Center of the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has served as the second-generation chief vice president, vice president, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, and dean of the School of Engineering. He also serves as vice chairman of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, executive director of the International Association for Computer Methods and Promotion of Geological Mechanics (IACMAG), senior vice chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, founding chairman of the Hong Kong IE Appraisal Committee, etc.
