Background
He was born in Soochow, Kiangsu, China in 1884.
He was born in Soochow, Kiangsu, China in 1884.
Mr. Tu attended the Anglo-Chinese School in Soochow in 1897-1898, and Nanyang College in Shanghai in 1898-1905. Then he went to America as a Government student in 1905 and studied in the civil engineering school of the University of California in 1905-1907. Later he became railway engineering student at the University of Illinois in 1907-1909, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree.
Wei-tseng Tu served on the Chicago and Alton Railway as a transitman after graduation in 1909 and Chicago-North-Western Railway in 1910, construction foreman of the Kansas City Terminal Railway in 1911. Upon return to China, he became a sectional resident engineer of the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, instructor in railway engineering of the Polytechnic Institute in Shanghai, China in 1912 and district engineer of the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway in 1912-1915.
Mr. Tu also worked as a senior assistant sectional engineer in Cantcn-Hankow Railway in 1915-1918, technical secretary to the Chinese representative on the Inter-Allied Technical Board for the supervision of the Chinese Eastern and Siberian Railways in 1919 and expert attached to the Chinese Delegation to the Washington Conference in 1921-1922.