About Ed Haug

BSME 1962, MSM

Ph.D. Applied Mechanics 1966, Kansas State University

Ed studied applied math and mechanics at Kansas State and the University of Minnesota, receiving the Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1966. He served a two-year tour of active duty with the US Army and another eight years with the Army in armament research and development. From 1976 through 2003 he taught and supervised research in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Iowa, where he founded the Center for Computer Aided Design, founded and served as President of a software corporation CADSI, and served as Founding Director of the US Department of Transportation National Advanced Driving Simulator. After retirement in 2003, Ed spent a decade constructing cabinetry and furniture in an off-the-grid home at elevation 7,500 ft in the mountains of southwest New Mexico, where he and his wife Carol live. Suffering from boredom, he returned to research in 2015, publishing 16 journal articles and his tenth book. Ed and Carol have endowed 15 Pathways graduate scholarships in Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T.