Mohamed LotfyTaha Hassan
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, El-Gamaa st., Giza, Egypt (email)
Dr. Mohamed Lotfy Taha Hassan's Biography
Dr. Lotfy completed his Bachelor in 2001, M.Sc. in 2006, and Ph.D. in 2013, from Aerospace department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He is currently and Associate Professor in the same department. He has gained a valuable experience in teaching and leading undergraduate and postgraduate students as he joined many universities as a part timer and a full timer like Suez Canal University (SCU), The British University in Egypt (BUE), Nile University (NU), Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), and Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology (IAET). He joined industrial engineering environments more than ten years. His professional experience has provided him with a broad view that is useful in relating academic life to the real world.
During his MSc and PhD, Dr. Lotfy gained a wide experience in Aeroservoelasticity through which he formulated finite element models for investigating aero-thermo-elastic behaviour of laminated composite panels. He designed and developed an integrated nonlinear panel flutter with active suppression software. His research interests have been fostered by four years of practical research on composite structures and ground resonance testing at Aerospace Research Center, Arab Organization for Industrialization. He also joined a team in the centre of excellence for predictive maintenance at British University in Egypt (BUE) to design a high speed centrifugal pump which is a part of desalination station.
Dr. Lotfy joined the Fulbright Junior Faculty Developed Program in Texas A&M University in Texas, US in 2017 and he joined CanSat Leader Training Program- in Nihon University, Japan in 2024.
Dr. Mohamed Lotfy has been teaching a wide variety of subjects: Modeling and simulation of dynamical systems, Automatic control (Classical and Modern), digital Control, mechanical vibrations, Flight Mechanics, finite element analysis, Experimental Methods in Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft Performance, Artificial intelligence, measurements and instrumentation, Robotics, Programming, design of Experiments, Air transport system analysis, Air transport Market Analysis and Forecasting, mechanics of composite materials, Structural Analysis, Theory of Elasticity, Theory of thin plates.
He has been supervising undergraduate students in their graduation projects in the fields of CubeSats, Wind turbines, Vibration-based condition monitoring. Moreover, he has been supervising postgraduate students in their M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the areas of flight mechanics and control, wind energy, fracture mechanics, vibration of turbomachinery, and aviation management.
From 2018-2021, Dr. Mohamed Lotfy was the academic coordinator of Aeronautical Engineering and Aviation Management (AEM) program, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. His research has been focused on Air Transport System Analysis, including Time Space Network, Fleet Assignment (FA), Flight Scheduling in light of operational constraints, Itinerary based FA, Spill-recapture demand, using Optimization packages to maximize profitability.
Dr. Mohamed Lotfy is encouraged to proceed his future research in Attitude Determination and Control Systems for Satellites, elastic tailoring of composite structures of wind turbine blades. He is also interested in the field of rotordynamics, control, vibration based condition monitoring techniques and their applicability on rotary machines.