While studying at the school to learn the mechanicsofthethree, housingarchitecture, civilengineeringconstruction, steel, engineering, surveying, and otherexpertise.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the schoolofcivilengineeringandarchitecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute ofCivilEngineeringandArchitecture, where he graduated in 1963.