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Wei, Yu  

Dr. Yu Wei
Director, Research Center for Learning Science, South East University, Nanjing
Dr. WEI Yu is the director of Research Center of Learning Sciences, Southeast University, PRC, the Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Vice Chairperson of China Association of Science and Technology , the former Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, PRC from 1993 - 2002. She obtained a bachelor of EE in 1961, a master of Electronics in 1965 from Nanjing Institute of Technology, Ph.D. of EE in 1981 from Aachen Technique University (TH Aachen) of West Germany. She was a Professor of Electronics, Dean of Faculty of BME and act as President of Southeast University from 1986 to 1993. Dr. Wei has been invited as honorary doctor at eight universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and Macao.
With 40 years of work in the area of electronics as teacher and researcher, Dr. Wei Yu has made systematic and important achievements, particularly in the development of bioelectronics and grounding molecular electronics in China. She has supervised more than 50 graduate students for Ph.D. and M. S. and published over 300 papers on electronics. She has also made many important contributions to the reform of higher education and the development of modern distance learning in China.
More recently she organizes research in 'Science of Learning' in China, including the introduction of 'Learning by Doing' science education programme and founding the website: www.handsbrain.com.
 
Scientific Lecture:
Science Education for ChildrenTuesday, 02 December 2003
Contact Information:
Research Center for Learning Science, South East University, Nanjing.
100816 Ministry of Education
Xidan, Da Mu Cang Hu Tong 37#
Beijing
China
Telephone: (+86 10) 6609-7281
Facsimile: (+86 10) 6641-3281
Email: yw.rcls@163.net
 
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