Sheng Ching-lai
盛慶琜 /盛庆琜
BornJuly 20, 1919
Kahsing
NationalityRepublic of China (1912–1949)
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh Ph.D. in Electrical engineering
Known forDean, College of Engineering, NCTU

Dr Sheng Ching-lai or Sheng Qinglai (July 20, 1919 – June 23, 2018) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He served at the president of the National Chiao Tung University from 1972 to 1978.

Career

In 1941, Sheng graduated from the National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai with a B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. From 1941 to 1945, he worked as a civil servant in the province of Sichuan, where the wartime capital Chongqing was situated.[1][unreliable source?]

After the war he studied at the University of Edinburgh. He earned a doctorate from the university in 1948. Through high career he taught at the National Taiwan University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Windsor,[2] and the Tamkang University.[3] He also served as the dean of the National Chiao Tung University College of Engineering. He also served as the president of the university from 1972 to 1978, where he planned the expansion of the campus.[4]

Sheng wrote extensively on utilitarianism, and developed a "unified utilitarian theory", described as "a decision-theoretical model of value that approximates the moral mathematics of Jeremy Bentham."[5]

Sheng died on June 23, 2018.[2]

References

  1. ^ Five thousand personalities of the world. American Biographical Institute. p. 1.
  2. ^ a b "University of Windsor - University mourns death of retired professor Ching Lai Sheng". Education News Canada. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  3. ^ "The Reestablishment Period in Taiwan". Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
  4. ^ "The Navigators of NCTU". NCTU Museum. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  5. ^ Crimmins, James E. (2013). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. London: Bloomsbury. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-8264-2989-6.
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