Autar Kaw is a professor of mechanical engineering and Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University of South Florida. His main scholarly interests are in engineering education, bridge design, composite materials, and the state and future
of higher education.
Autar has written several books on subjects such as composite materials, numerical methods, computer programming and engineering licensure examination.
Since 2002, under his leadership, he and his colleagues from all over the nation have developed, implemented, refined and assessed online resources for open courseware in Numerical Methods (http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu). With more than a
million page views per year, this courseware is becoming increasingly popular. This is in addition to the half-a-million annual views of the YouTubelectures and 75,000 annual visitors to the “numerical methods guy” blog.
Autar’s work has appearedin the St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, Chance, Oracle, and his work has been covered in Campus Technology.
Autar is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME) and a member of the American Society of Engineering Education(ASEE). He received his BE Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), India in 1981, and his degrees of Ph.D. in 1987 and M.S. in 1984, both
in Engineering Mechanics from Clemson University, SC.
