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Society. He has recently been inducted as an eminent engineer in Tau Beta Pi, an honorary member
in Sigma Gamma Tau and Pi Tau Sigma, and a member-at-large in Sigma Xi. From 1988 to 1991,
Dr. Gad-el-Hak served as Associate Editor for AIAA Journal. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief for
e-MicroNano.com, Associate Editor for Applied Mechanics Reviews and e-Fluids, as well as Contributing
Editor for Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Engineering and Lecture Notes in Physics, for McGraw-Hill’s
Year Book of Science and Technology, and for CRC Press’ Mechanical Engineering Series.
Dr. Gad-el-Hak serves as consultant to the governments of Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Poland,
Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States, the United Nations, and numerous industrial
organizations. Professor Gad-el-Hak has been a member of several advisory panels for DOD, DOE, NASA
and NSF. During the 1991/1992 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Institut de Mécanique
de Grenoble, France. During the summers of 1993, 1994 and 1997, Dr. Gad-el-Hak was, respectively, a
distinguished faculty fellow at Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island, a visiting
exceptional professor at Université de Poitiers, France, and a Gastwissenschaftler (guest scientist) at
Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany. In 1998, Professor Gad-el-Hak was named the
Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, Gad-el-Hak was awarded the prestigious Alexander von
Humboldt Prize — Germany’s highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disci-
plines — as well as the Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Scholars. In 2002, Gad-el-Hak
was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society
of Scholars.

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