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Dr. Thomson E. Mao was born at Chinkiang, Kiangsu Province, in 1896. He received his middle-school education in Shanghai. In 1910 Dr. Mao entered the Tangshan Engineering College, Tangshan, taking civil engineering courses. From that institution he graduated in 1916. Immediately after his graduation from Tangshan, Dr. Mao went to America. He obtained the degree of M. C. E., from the Cornell University in 1917; served as engineer with McClintic, Marshal Construction Company, Pittsburgh, 1917-18, and was given the degree of Doctor of Engineering by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1920. He is the first Chinese receiving this degree, his thesis being "Secondary Stresses in Bridge Trusses." Dr. Mao returned to China in 1917. He served as Professor of