Dora Musielak

Dora Elia Musielak is an aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author. She is an expert on high-speed airbreathing jet engines,[1] and an adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.[2]

Education and career

Musielak earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico in 1978,[2] the first woman to earn a degree in this field there.[2][3] She continued with a master's degree at the University of Tennessee in 1980, and a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1994.[2]

Her employers have included Northrop Grumman, MSE Technology Applications, and ATK Allied Techsystems.[2] She chaired the High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 2014 to 2016.[4]

Books

Musielak's 2004 self-published historical novel Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel, based on the life of mathematician Sophie Germain, was republished in a second edition in 2012 by the Mathematical Association of America.[3][5] Musielak also wrote a biography of Germain, Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain (2015), also republished in an expanded second edition as Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician by Springer in 2020.[6]

Her other books include Kuxan Suum: Path to the Center of the Universe (2010) and Euler Celestial Analysis: Introduction to Spacecraft Orbit Mechanics (2018). These remain self-published, through AuthorHouse.

References
  1. "Aircraft's target: Mach 6 for 5 minutes", Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2012, Dora Musielak, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Texas at Arlington whose research focuses on high-speed propulsion
  2. Dr. Dora Elia Musielak, University of Texas at Arlington, retrieved 2018-11-18
  3. "A mathematical novel from UT Arlington professor", UTA News Center, University of Texas at Arlington, May 9, 2012
  4. Musielak, Dora (July 2014), "Message from the chair", HighSpeed Times: Newsletter of the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, 5 (2): 1
  5. Reviews of Sophie's Diary:
  6. Reviews of Prime Mystery and Sophie Germain: Revolutionary Mathematician:
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