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In Celebration

Professor A. Haji-Sheikh on his 85th birthday

On November 27, 2018, Professor A. Haji-Sheikh celebrates his
85th birthday. For more than 50 years, he has made outstanding
contributions as a scholar and teacher. He is a well-respectedand prominent contributor to several scientific and engineeringcommunities within the United States and internationally, especially in the areas of floating random walk for Monte Carlo, Galerkin-based Green’s functions applied to conduction heat transfer,and solutions to inverse problems.
Professor Haji-Sheikh was born in 1933, in Dezful, Khuzistan,Iran, where he received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering(1956, University of Tehran). He came to the United States in1957, where he received his M.S. degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in mechanical engineering, in 1959, and his M.A.
degree in mathematics, from the same university, in 1961. In
1965, he received his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in mechanical engineering under Prof. Ephraim Sparrow.
He was an instructor at the Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
In 1966, he joined the Department of Aerospace and MechanicalEngineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. It
was a school in transition. It was started in 1895 as a two-year
school, Arlington College. In 1959, it became Arlington State College, a four-year institution. In 1965, it was transferred to theUniversity of Texas System. He was recruited to develop measurement laboratories to insure accreditation. In 1967 the University
decided to offer graduate courses. In all of these substantial
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transitions, Professor Haji-Sheikh’s contributions were invaluable.
It helps to explain how he came as an assistant professor in 1966
and rose to full professor in 1970. Many of his former students
play prominent roles in academia, research laboratories, and ingovernment.
Prof. Haji-Sheikh has been a decades-long loyal and productive
friend and colleague. He has made many unique contributions
including solutions for multi-layer 3D heat-conducting bodies,
entrance flows, and eigenvalues computation in heat conduction.
In addition to his unique contributions and leadership in varioustopics, he has been a very productive and valuable team member. As a contributor to the EXACT project funded by the US NSF,
Professor Haji-Sheikh provided numerous heat conduction solutions and accompanying computer code for layered planar bodies,
for layered cylindrical bodies, and for thermal-wave effects in finiteand semi-infinite bodies. He continues to teach and has publishedrecently on non-Fourier heat conduction (both single- and dualphase lags), heat conduction in multilayers, and heat transfer andfluid flow in porous media.
Professor Haji-Sheikh has authored more than 100 archival
journal articles and seven book chapters, as well as countless technical presentations. Many of his publications have been collaborations made possible by his lifelong search for people who share hisenthusiasm for discovery. Professor Haji-Sheikh is author of graduate level books: Integral Methods in Science and Engineering,
1985, eds. Payne, Corduneanu, Haji-Sheikh, and Huang, (Hemisphere, 1986); Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, 1990,eds. Haji-Sheikh, Corduneanu, Fry, Huang, and Payne, (Hemisphere,1991); Heat Conduction Using Green’s Functions, Beck, Cole, HajiSheikh, and Litkouhi (Hemisphere, 1992); Heat Conduction Using
Green’s Functions, Cole, Beck, Haji-Sheikh, and Litkouhi (Taylor &Francis, CRC Press, 2010, 2nd Ed.); and Heat Transfer in Composite
Materials, Seiichi Nomura and A. Haji-Sheikh, Destech, 2017.
Active in the Heat Transfer Division of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, Professor Haji-Sheikh has been a Fellow ofASME since 1992 and a Senior Member of AIAA. He served as Associate Technical Editor for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2005–2008); as Associate Editor for ASME Press Book Series in Electronic
Packaging (2002–Present); and as Guest Editor for the Special Issueof Inverse Problems in Engineering and the Tenth Inverse Problems
in Engineering Seminar, Vol. 9, No. 5, 2001. Also, he served on
numerous editorial boards: International Editorial Board, Inverse
Problems in Engineering (2001–2004); Editorial Advisory Board,Numerical Heat Transfer (2002–Present); and Advisory Board,
Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (2004–Present). Professor Haji-Sheikh was awarded ASME Heat Transfer Memorial
Award for Science in 2005. Other awards include the ASME Journalof Heat Transfer Exemplary Service Award, 1993; Distinguished
Record of Research Award, UTA, 1996; Distinguished Scholar

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Professor, UTA, 2004; Charter member of UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholar, 2004; Research Excellence Award, UTA, 2005
and 2006; and ASME 75th Anniversary Medal Recipient, 2013.
On behalf of his great many friends, former students, and colleagues worldwide, we wish Professor Haji-Sheikh a resounding
Happy 85th Birthday with many thanks for all of his valuable contributions, outstanding service, leadership, and, especially, hisfriendship. We wish Professor Haji-Sheikh and his family many
happy years of continued prosperity and great health!

Dereje Agonafer⇑
James BeckKevin Cole
W.J. Minkowycz
Filippo de Monte
Robert McMasters
Keith Woodbury⇑ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: beck@egr.msu.edu (J. Beck)
Available online 11 April 2018