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Susan Wu

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Engineering
#2578
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#3526
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#830
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#3596
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#3711
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#430
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According to Wikipedia, Ying Chu Lin Wu was a Chinese-born American businesswoman and engineer in magnetohydrodynamics, aeronautics, and aerospace engineering. Education and career Wu was born in Peking, China studied mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University, and earned a B.S. in 1955. She moved to the United States in 1957 and earned an M.S. from Ohio State University in 1959 before moving to the California Institute of Technology , where she became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in aeronautics in 1963. Wu worked at Electro-Optics Corporation for two years. In 1965 she joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee Space Institute where she was promoted to professor in 1973. In 1988 when she founded ERC, Engineering Research and Consulting, a company working in the defense and space industry.

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