Chen Zhaoyuan

Chen was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, on 1 October 1930. In 1949 he was accepted by Shanghai Institute of Textile Technology (now Donghua University), where he majored in textile.^[1] He was admitted by Tsinghua University in 1950 and taught there when he graduated.^[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1953. In August 1957, he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign between April 1983 and April 1984. He was appointed director of the Department of Architecture in September 1984, serving until September 1988. He died of illness in Beijing, on 25 June 2020.^[2]

• 陈肇元自传 我的土木工程科研生涯 [Autobiography of Chen Zhaoyuan: My Career in Civil Engineering Research] (in Chinese). Beijing: Science Press. 2016. ISBN 9787030495181.

• 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^{[citation needed]}