Hassan Named Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
November 28, 2005
By Jenny Weston, NCSU
From Engineering News at NC State

Dr. Hassan A. Hassan, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

An Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal of Excellence recipient, Hassan was a member of the team that founded the NC State aerospace engineering program. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASEE Western Electric Award and the R.J. Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension. Other awards include Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering award, Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, NASA Public Service Medal and AIAA Thermophysics Award. During his 43 years on the NC State faculty, he has made significant contributions in the fields of plasma dynamics; electrical propulsion; electric discharge and nuclear pumped lasers for space application; re-entry physics; Monte Carlo simulation of the Martian atmosphere; transition and turbulence; hybrid large-eddy/Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes methods; supersonic combustion and atmospheric optical turbulence.

Hassan received his Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1956. He joined the NC State faculty in 1962.