Background
Shih-Ying Lee was born on April 30, 1918 in Peking, China. He was the son of Tse-Kung and Pei-Jour (Tao) Lee.
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Shih-Ying Lee was born on April 30, 1918 in Peking, China. He was the son of Tse-Kung and Pei-Jour (Tao) Lee.
Shih-Ying Lee attended Tsinghua University in 1936, obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1940. He worked as a teaching assistant at Tsinghua for nearly two years and went to study in the United States in 1942. Shih-Ying Lee obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945.
After graduation, Shih-Ying Lee soon taught engineering at MIT; and was promoted from teaching assistant to full professor and finally Professor Emeritus after his retirement in 1974. In 1985, he was elected Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering for his original research on control valve stability, for innovative dynamic measurement instrumentation, and for successful entrepreneurial commercialization of his inventions. Shih-Ying Lee has been granted many US patents.
Shih-Ying Lee founded or co-founded several companies specialized in process control and hydrodynamic instruments. He co-founded Dynisco Inc. and Setra Systems Inc. with his brother Y. T. Li and was Chairman of the company. He donated funds to establish the Shih-Ying Lee Scholarship at Tsinghua.
Shih-Ying Lee died in July 2018 at the age of 100.