engineering

Ning Bin

Ning Bin is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ning Bin rather than just read about it. In short: Ning Bin (Chinese: 宁滨; 1 May 1959 – 14 June 2019) was a Chinese control systems engineer and professor who served as president of Beijing Jiaotong University from 2008 to 2019. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2014 "for contributions to train operation control systems" and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Key takeaways

Ning Bin belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ning Bin to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ning Bin from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ning Bin (Chinese: 宁滨; 1 May 1959 – 14 June 2019) was a Chinese control systems engineer and professor who served as president of Beijing Jiaotong University from 2008 to 2019. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2014 "for contributions to train operation control systems" and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. He was a four-time recipient of the State Science and Technology Progress Award and was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize in 2016. He died in a traffic collision.

Life and career Ning was born on 1 May 1959 in Jishan County, Shanxi, China. After graduating from Northern Jiaotong University in 1982 with a bachelor of engineering degree in railway signalling, he was hired by the university as a faculty member. He later pursued graduate studies at the same university, earning his master's degree in 1987 and his doctor of engineering in 2005. In 1997, Ning was appointed Vice President of Northern Jiaotong University. He was promoted to Executive Vice President of the university (by then renamed Beijing Jiaotong University) in 2004. From March 2008 until May 2019 he served as President of the university. In December 2018, a laboratory explosion at Beijing Jiaotong University killed three students. After an investigation, Ning and eleven other university officials were found responsible for safety lapses and reprimanded in February 2019. On 5 May 2019, Ning was replaced by Wang Jiaqiong (王稼琼) as president. Two days later, the university established the Sichuan–Tibet Railway Research Center and Ning was appointed its director.

Contributions and honours Ning was a pioneer in developing digitized signalling systems of China's rapid transit networks and made significant contributions to the control systems of China's high-speed railway network and rapid transit networks. He also advised more than 50 doctoral and master's students. Ning was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to train operation control systems". He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. He was also a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Ning was conferred the State Science and Technology Progress Award four times, including a Special Prize in 2015 for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway project, as well as three Second Class prizes (1998, 2009, and 2012). He was a recipient of the Zhan Tianyou Prize, the highest honour of China's railway industry. In 2016, he was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress.

Death On 14 June 2019, according to a preliminary report released by the Beijing Police Department, Ning was the passenger in a Buick GL8 involved in an accident which occurred at 8:57 a.m. in Chaoyang District. When the Buick was changing lanes, it collided with another car coming from behind and rolled over, crossing the median to the opposite lane. Ning was declared dead after being rushed to hospital. The driver, surnamed Liu, survived. Ning was on his way to attend the World Transport Convention in Beijing when the accident occurred. He was 60.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ning Bin

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ning Bin claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ning Bin before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ning Bin ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ning Bin

In research: Ning Bin appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ning Bin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ning Bin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1959 births, 2019 deaths, Academic staff of Beijing Jiaotong University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ning Bin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ning Bin in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Ning Bin means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Ning Bin out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Ning Bin matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ning Bin?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Ning Bin.