Kawthar Abdelhamid Zaki (born 1940) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, known for her work in microwave engineering including the design of microwave

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s, and

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. She is a

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of electrical and computer engineering at the

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Education and career

Zaki is originally from Egypt, and is a 1962 graduate of

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. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering from the

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, in 1969, and the first female engineering professor at the University of Maryland, beginning there in 1970.

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". She is also a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zaki, Kawthar 1940 births Living people Egyptian electrical engineers Egyptian women academics American electrical engineers American women engineers Ain Shams University alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the IEEE 21st-century American women American microwave engineers Egyptian emigrants to the United States