Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Mao I-sheng
Dr. Thomson Eason Ma.
茅以昇字唐臣
(Mao I-ehong)
Dr. Thomson E. Mao was born at Chinkiang, Kiangsu Province, in 1896. He received his middle-school education in Shanghai. In 1910 Dr. Mao entered the Tangshan Engineering College, Tangshan, taking civil engineering courses. From that institution he graduated in 1916. Immediately after his graduation from Tangshan, Dr. Mao went to America. He obtained the degree of M. C. E., from the Cornell University in 1917; served as engineer with McClintic, Marshal Construction Company, Pittsburgh, 1917-18, and was given the degree of Doctor of Engineering by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1920. He is the first Chinese receiving this degree, his thesis being "Secondary Stresses in Bridge Trusses." Dr. Mao returned to China in 1917. He served as Professor of Bridge Engineering and engineering management, Tangshan Engineering College, Tangshan, 1917-18; in 192! the Ministry of Communications established the Communications University (Chiao Tung University) by amalgamating the three colleges which had been maintained by the Ministry, the Tangshan Engineering College, the Shanghai Nanyang College, and the Peking College of Communications. Dr. Mao was appointed assistant principal and head of Civil Engineering Department, of the Tangshan College of the Chiao Tung University. In 1922 Dr. Mao left Tangshan and became Dean of College of Engineering, National Southeastern University, Nanking. In the summer of 1924 the College of Engineering of the Southeastern University was temporary suspended on account of lack of funds. In July 1924 Dr. Mao became president of the Conservancy Engineering College, Nanking. Dr. Mao is chairman of the Committee on Joint Administration of Kiangsu Education and Industry, Nanking. He has been awarded the honorable Fuertes Medal for Original Research by Cornell University. He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, U.S.A., of the Chinese Engineering Society; and of the Chinese Science Society. He is the author of many articles on Bridge Engineering in America in Engineering periodicals.
