He graduated from the Department of Electrical Machinery, Chongqing University in July 1943, and was awarded the bachelor degree in engineering. In May 1949, he was awarded the master degree in engineering in the Department of Electrical Machinery, McGill University, Canada. He was the Dean of the Department of Electrical Machinery in Chongqing University, President of Chongqing University, member and deputy director of MOE College Electric Engineering Textbook Editing and Evaluation Committee, head of Electric Circuit Theory and Signal Analysis Textbook Editing and Evaluation Team. He was also a member and director of the Electric Course Committee of MOE, member and organizer of the Electric Engineering Assessing Team under the State Council Degree Committee, representative of the Seventh National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.

Over the past 60 years, Professor Jiang Zejia has devoted himself to teaching, research and higher education administration, achieving noteworthy attainments in electrical engineering. He is widely recognized as a prestigious scholar in the academic circle of electric theories and he is also a distinguished educationist. He has made significant contributions to the development of the College, as well as the administration of higher education in China. Since 1988, Professor Jiang Zejia and his team have undertaken 3 international research projects, and 14 state level research projects and 48 provincial or ministerial level research projects. They have won 3 first-prize and 4 second-prize awards at state, provincial and ministerial levels (e.g. Sci-tech Advance Award, Excellent Textbook Award). Professor Jiang’s work has exercised considerable influence in the academic circle home and abroad. Professor Jiang has authored textbooks and five types of academic monographs (11 volumes) in the People’s Education Press and Higher Education Press. He has published over 80 major academic papers in prestigious periodicals home and abroad. Under his supervision, nearly 100 master and doctoral candidates have successfully graduated, and many of them are now famous professors or experts in electrical engineering and senior personnel in administration. Among those graduates supervised by professor Jiang, two are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and five are provincial or ministerial leaders.