Christine Qiong Wu is a retired Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research focused on the mechanics of moving vehicles, walking robots, and walking people. She is a lung cancer survivor, and in her retirement has worked as a lung cancer patient research advocate.

Education and academic career

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Wu has a 1986 bachelor's degree from Peking University. She moved to Canada for graduate study, earned a master's degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990, and completed a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1996.[1]

After completing her Ph.D., she remained on the University of Manitoba faculty, becoming a professor of mechanical engineering.[2] She was given the NSERC/MCI Industrial Research Chair in Heavy Ground Vehicles and Transportation Equipment in 2012.[3] She served as president of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering for 2012–2014.[1]

Cancer diagnosis and activism

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Wu went on leave from her faculty position in 2015, after a diagnosis of lung cancer.[4] Although never a smoker herself, she has worked to publicize the connection between smoking and lung cancer.[5] She celebrated the eight-year anniversary of her diagnosis, and five-year anniversary of having a stable diagnosis, in 2023. She has also begun work as the leader of a research team for the Canadian Cancer Society.[6]

Recognition

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Wu was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) in 2009,[7] and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014.[8]

She was the 2016 recipient of the C. N. Downing Award of the CSME,[7] and of the Judith Weiszmann Women in Engineering Champion Award of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba.[2]

In 2019 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer gave her their Advocate Travel Award in recognition of her work in lung cancer education and advocacy.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Christine Q. Wu", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 1 March 2016, retrieved 2024-05-15
  2. ^ a b Judith Weiszmann Women in Engineering Champion Award: Dr. Christine Wu, P.Eng (PDF), Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba, retrieved 2024-05-15
  3. ^ "Christine Qiong Wu", Chairholder profiles, NSERC, 28 June 2016, retrieved 2024-05-15
  4. ^ a b Lung Cancer Survivor Recognized for Lung Cancer Education and Advocacy Efforts, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 16 August 2019, retrieved 2024-05-15
  5. ^ Wu, Christine Qiong (28 November 2023), "Reflecting on Smoking and Lung Cancer", LungCancer.net, retrieved 2024-05-15
  6. ^ Wu, Christine Qiong (26 September 2023), "My 8th Year Cancerversary", LungCancer.net, retrieved 2024-05-15
  7. ^ a b List of Award Recipients, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, retrieved 2024-05-15
  8. ^ All Fellows (PDF), ASME, 2014, retrieved 2024-05-15
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