bjbj- NORTH CAMPUS # Shao Charlie Soo Charlie
Soo's academic career in China was turbulent.
While attending National Chiao-Tung University
in Shanghai during WWII, he and his fellow
students were forced to evacuate the school
because of the incoming Japanese invasion.
The school relocated 1,500 miles away in Chunking.
Charlie and his younger brother made the trip
by train, truck, and on foot. Soo graduated
with a bachelor s degree in 1945, three years
before the Communist revolution. In 1946,
China held open exams to select students for
travel to the United States. The winners received
graduate-school level training. Out of six
thousand applicants, Soo was one of 40 chosen.
He went to Georgia Institute of Technology
where he completed his master s degree in
1948. He went on and received his Doctor of
Science Degree from Harvard in 1951, and taught
at Princeton before joining the Department
of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty
at Illinois. He specialized in the dynamics
of multi-phase systems during his time at
Illinois. Future University president James
Stukel was one of his graduate students in
Mechanical Engineering. Soo worked tirelessly
toward his dedication to energy conversion
and environmental responsibility. In 1974,
he designed plans that would eliminate sulfer
from coal emissions. In the early 80s, the
University of Illinois Abbott Power Plant
implemented a similar system, and it saved
the state millions of dollars in imported
fuel costs. At his retirement in 1992, after
nearly forty years at Illinois, Soo and his
wife Hermia established the Yunchuan Aisinjioro-Soo
Distinguished Lectureship in honor of his
mother, who was a descendent of the last royal
house of China and a Manchurian Princess.
Inscribed in gold on the Certificate for the
Distinguished Lectureship are these words:
Throughout the turmoil of the revolution and
war, she steadfastly believed that the way
for the family to serve the people is through
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