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Vita
- 1945—Born, Tanta, Egypt.
- 1966—B.Sc. (summa cum
laude), Mechanical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
- 1973—Ph.D., Fluid
Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1986–2002—Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana.
- 2002—Inez Caudill Eminent
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Mechanical Engineering,
Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, Virginia.
- Fellow, The American Academy of
Mechanics.
- Fellow and Life Member, The American
Physical Society.
- Fellow, The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
- Designated the Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar, 1998.
- Japanese Government Research Award for
Foreign Scholars, 1999.
- Alexander
von Humboldt Prize, 1999. For a word about von Humboldt, click here.
- Inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of
Scholars, 2002.
- Designated ASME Distinguished Lecturer,
2002–2005.
- Author of 18 books and 460
scientific articles.
- Complete Resume.
- Or Short
Biographical Sketch of Mohamed Gad-el-Hak.
Flying insects and birds, through millions of years of evolution, can
change the shape of their wings, subtly or dramatically, to adapt to
various flight conditions. The resulting performance and agility are
unmatched by any human-made airplane. For example, the dragonfly can
fly forward and backward, turn abruptly and perform other
supermaneuvers, hover, feed, and even mate while aloft. Undoubtedly,
its prodigious wings contributed to the species’ survival for over 250
million years. The photo above depicts a male and a female Cardinal
Meadowhawk
dragonfly following airborne mating. The male has towed the
just-inseminated female to a pond and is dipping her tail in the water
so she can deposit her eggs.
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