Kawthar Zaki

Kawthar Abdelhamid Zaki (born 1940) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, known for her work in microwave engineering including the design of microwave waveguides, resonators, and filters. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Quotes I came from a large family of 4 sisters and 2 brothers. We lived in Cairo and my father was a civil servant and an actor and my mother was a homemaker. My father believed that the place for women is home to raise children. He did not believe that a girl’s education is important Talking about the type of family she is from My father had hoped for my brothers to become engineers, but I was the one who did in the end. My mother, having raised 7 kids without any help, was very supportive of me His father's expectation I was the first woman to graduate with a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Berkeley.” Her PhD degree in 1969 The first time I went to the classroom, many students waled out. They thought they were in the wrong class. I wrote the title of the course on the board, and they came back. "Her experience on the first day of teaching at University of Maryland I was lucky to have a very supportive husband who saw our home life as his responsibility just as much as mine. Talking about how supportive her husband is The department has now hired many women and fortunately they have had a much easier time than I did, with maternity leave and lots of flexibility in doing research and teaching. I am glad that this happens, and that women are advancing and doing a great job, but I am still disappointed that in this country, we still have a glass ceiling and so few women choose to go into engineering. Advancement in hiring I’m so grateful that Egypt had free high quality public higher education when Ali and I met. If it were not for Ain Shams, I would not have been able to come this far. how her country having free education helped her External links Category:Electrical engineers Category:Women academics from Egypt Category:1940 births Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Living people