Christine Q. Wu
Christine Qiong Wu is a retired Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research focused on the mechanics of moving vehicles, walking robots, and walking people. She is a lung cancer survivor, and in her retirement has worked as a lung cancer patient research advocate.
Education and academic career[edit]
Wu has a 1986 bachelor's degree from Peking University. She moved to Canada for graduate study, earned a master's degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990, and completed a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1996.[1]
After completing her Ph.D., she remained on the University of Manitoba faculty, becoming a professor of mechanical engineering.[2] She was given the NSERC/MCI Industrial Research Chair in Heavy Ground Vehicles and Transportation Equipment in 2012.[3] She served as president of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering for 2012–2014.[1]
Cancer diagnosis and activism[edit]
Wu went on leave from her faculty position in 2015, after a diagnosis of lung cancer.[4] Although never a smoker herself, she has worked to publicize the connection between smoking and lung cancer.[5] She celebrated the eight-year anniversary of her diagnosis, and five-year anniversary of having a stable diagnosis, in 2023. She has also begun work as the leader of a research team for the Canadian Cancer Society.[6]
Recognition[edit]
Wu was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) in 2009,[7] and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014.[8]
She was the 2016 recipient of the C. N. Downing Award of the CSME,[7] and of the Judith Weiszmann Women in Engineering Champion Award of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba.[2]
In 2019 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer gave her their Advocate Travel Award in recognition of her work in lung cancer education and advocacy.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Christine Q. Wu", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 1 March 2016, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ a b Judith Weiszmann Women in Engineering Champion Award: Dr. Christine Wu, P.Eng (PDF), Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ "Christine Qiong Wu", Chairholder profiles, NSERC, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ a b Lung Cancer Survivor Recognized for Lung Cancer Education and Advocacy Efforts, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 16 August 2019, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ Wu, Christine Qiong (28 November 2023), "Reflecting on Smoking and Lung Cancer", LungCancer.net, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ Wu, Christine Qiong (26 September 2023), "My 8th Year Cancerversary", LungCancer.net, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ a b List of Award Recipients, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, retrieved 2024-05-15
- ^ All Fellows (PDF), ASME, 2014, retrieved 2024-05-15
External links[edit]
- Living people
- Chinese mechanical engineers
- Chinese women engineers
- Canadian mechanical engineers
- Canadian women engineers
- Women mechanical engineers
- Peking University alumni
- University of British Columbia alumni
- University of Manitoba alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
- Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers