Kawthar Zaki

Kawthar Abdelhamid Zaki (born 1940)[1] is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, known for her work in microwave engineering including the design of microwave waveguides, resonators, and filters.[2][3] She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.[4]

Education and career

Zaki is originally from Egypt, and is a 1962 graduate of Ain Shams University. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and the first female engineering professor at the University of Maryland, beginning there in 1970.[5]

Recognition

Zaki was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1991, "for contributions to the analysis of dielectric waveguides and resonators and their applications in microwave filters and oscillators design".[6] She is also a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.[7]

References

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