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Dr. Hassan Ahmad Hassan
1932 - 2019
Dr. Hassan Ahmad Hassan is a Nakba survivor from the Palestinian village of Tamra in the Lower Galilee.
In 1948, Hassan was 17 years old. He remembers the Zionist forces telling him and his fellow village residents to “Leave or else…,” so they did.
In 2013, Hassan’s grandson Rami, needed to complete a project for a term paper he was writing for his high school class. He called his grandfather and casually asked him if he would give him a telephone interview about his life. Good thing Hassan agreed, for we now have a fascinating oral history spanning multiple generations and continents. Dr. Hassan, as he later became known, passed away on January 12, 2019 at the age of 87.
About Dr. Hassan
A passion for all that is aerospace, Dr. Hassan joined NC State University in 1962 as a full professor, and helped create the Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering program in 1964. Dr. Hassan spent every summer at NASA Langley Research Center together with an entourage of students working on research problems side by side with NASA researchers. He continued this practice for more than 30 years until the early 1990s – playing a critical role in the development of NASA’s in-house computational fluid dynamics codes with the special focus on predicting transition and separation – the features of aerodynamic flow that continue to challenge engineers today.
Dr. Hassan was the major adviser to thirty four doctoral students, authored more than two hundred publications, and has been recognized with numerous research awards including the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award, 1987, the Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, 1991, the NASA Public Service Medal, 1992, the R. J. Reynolds Co. Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension, 1993, the AIAA Thermophysics Award, 1999, and the Alexander Holladay Medal For Excellence, 2004 – the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the NC State trustees.
Dr. Hassan led the aerospace faculty in developing a national reputation in aerospace research that is second to none. He was among a distinguished group of faculty who formed the program’s CFD center and later the Mars Mission Research Center – the largest research center in the University of North Carolina System at that time. The center trained our next generation of aerospace researchers and engineers.