engineering

Xie Shileng

Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng rather than just read about it. In short: Xie Shileng (Chinese: 谢世楞; 20 May 1935 – 7 November 2018) was a Chinese port and coastal engineer who served as an assistant chief engineer of the First Navigational Engineering Survey and Design Institute of the Ministry of Transport. Biography Xie was born in Cixi, Zhejiang on May 20, 1935.

Key takeaways

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

Reference excerpt

Xie Shileng (Chinese: 谢世楞; 20 May 1935 – 7 November 2018) was a Chinese port and coastal engineer who served as an assistant chief engineer of the First Navigational Engineering Survey and Design Institute of the Ministry of Transport.

Biography Xie was born in Cixi, Zhejiang on May 20, 1935. After graduating from the Dalian University of Technology in August 1956, he was assigned to the Water Transport Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Transport. One year later he was transferred to its First Navigational Engineering Survey and Design Institute. After the Cultural Revolution in November 1979, Xie pursued advanced studies in the Netherlands, where he studied at Delft University of Technology. In 1999 he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He died of lymphoma in Tianjin, on November 7, 2018.

Awards 1985 Second Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award 2007 First Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award 2013 First Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Xie Shileng

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng

In research: Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng 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: Xie Shileng is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1935 births, 2018 deaths, Chinese civil engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Xie Shileng in simple terms?

Why does Xie Shileng 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 Xie Shileng?

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 Xie Shileng.