[Iefac.list] The Passing of M. Sadek Eid

[Mohamed Dessouky]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

It is with a great sense of loss that I convey 
the news of the passing of Dr. Mohamed Sadek Eid 
on August 1, 2012. Mohamed Sadek was a very good 
friend and a strong supporter of Computers and 
Industrial Engineering, where he served as area editor.

Mohamed Sadek was born in Egypt in 1938 and 
received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical 
Engineering from Cairo University in 1961, with a 
focus on Production Engineering. He won a 
scholarship to continue his education in the 
United States, where he earned a Master of 
Engineering from Thayer School of Engineering at 
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 
1967, a degree in Industrial Engineering from 
Columbia University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 
Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State 
University in 1974.  His career involved teaching 
at Cairo University, Université de Moncton, 
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and the American 
University in Cairo, Egypt. He was the first 
Industrial Engineering professor to join 
Université de Moncton; and while there, he took 
the Engineering unit from being a department 
within the Faculty of Science, to becoming an 
independent School of Engineering, He also worked 
at the National Institute of Planning and Mobil 
Oil Corporation, both in Cairo, Egypt, and the Chemical Bank in New York.

Mohamed Sadek strongly believed in the value of 
education and dedicated his life to promoting 
it.  He worked tirelessly with students, and 
helped young faculty members advance their 
careers. Some of his students became renowned 
university faculty and administrators on their 
own. He distinguished himself by helping to steer 
the journal in the global direction, become truly 
international, not the least through active 
participation in and organization of the series 
of conferences entitled, “International 
Conference on Computers & Industrial 
Engineering”, and maintaining its web-site. The 
participants of these conferences, representing 
the scores of countries, attest to that.

On behalf of the Journal’s Area Editors and 
Editorial Board, and as a friend of Mohamed 
Sadek, I extend my deepest sympathy to his 
friends and family, especially his wife Susan 
Saleh Eid, his daughters Dr. Soha Eid Moussa and 
Sally Eid, his son-in-law Dr. Medhat Moussa, and 
his grandsons Mohamed and Ali Moussa.

Mohamed I. Dessouky, Ph.D., P.E.
Editor-in-Chief
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Research Professor
Daniel J. Epstein Department of
         Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
3715 McClintock Avenue, GER 240
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0193,  USA

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