Youbai XIE
Members of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Elected in 1994
He is the Professor of Xi’an JiaotongUniversity, doctoral supervisor and the honorary director of Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University. He is also the professors of many universities and editor of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Tribology. Once he was the member of discipline assessment groups of the academic degree commission of the state council and the chief expert of the modern design technology of AMTRC, director-general of Chinese Mechanical EngineeringSociety and Institute of Tribology, the director of Theory of Lubricationand Bearing Institute School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and the editor of ProcIMechE (Part J) Journal of Engineering Tribology. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994 and in 1995 he was chosen as a national model worker.
He engaged in research and teaching in Mechanics, Tribology for more than 60 years. He held and finished more than 10 national key scientific research projects, and received the Adward of National Conferenceon Science, National Natural Science Award, National Science Progress Award, Science Progress Award in Ministerial and Provincial-Level and the Honorary Award for the Most Hard working Teacher, achievement award of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the Science Progress Award fundeded by the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation and many patented items. He has supervised more than 100 graduates and published more than 300 articles.
He did theoretical and practical research on Tribology, put forward three axioms of tribology and built a framework of tribology theory and apply them on design of largerotating machinery, engine tribology and dynamics. He also raised four basic principles on design and many important ideas, such as “design is the spirit of manufacturing”; “successful innovation can not be alive without correct designs”; “the meaning of design service todesign competition in distributed resources and environment”and so on. He initiated, organized and operatedInternet-Based Collaborative Research Center on Modern Design and Manufacturing of Ministry of Education of China. He invented the technique of Life Circle Nature and Digital Sampling and now is organizing and promoting the research on design.
