Zeinab Safar, Ph.D. Dr. Zeinab Safar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cairo University. She was born in 1948. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1968. She earned a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1969, and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1973. Prof. Safar is a Technical Advisor to the Lead Pollution Abatement Program in Cairo Air Improvement Project, and to the Secretary General of the National Council for Women. Her area of expertise includes energy efficiency and conservation, environmental management and control, small and micro enterprises development. She was a research associate at University of California, Berkeley in the academic year 1978/1979, and an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University in 1979/1980, and associate professor in 1980/1981. Prof. Safar is a member of the Shoura Council, and a member of the industrial and Energy Committee and the Women Committee in the National Party. She is also a member of Technology Transfer Committee of Federation of Industry and Commerce of G-15, member of the Environmental Management Committee for Cairo Governorate, and in several scientific committees. Dr. Seinab is a member in the ASME, Egyptian Engineering Society, and Egyptian Tribology Society. She has published about 50 papers in the areas of lubrication, energy, combustion, and environment in international journals and conferences. Return to African Women in Engineering and Science