Edward Haug is Carver Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at The University of Iowa. He received a PhD in Applied Mechanics in 1966 from Kansas State University, following a year of study in mathematics at the University of Minnesota. He served a two-year tour of active duty with the US Army and another eight years with the Army in armament research and development. From 1976 through 2003 he taught and supervised graduate student research in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Iowa, where he founded the Center for Computer Aided Design, founded, and served as President of a software corporation CADSI, and served as Founding Director of the US Department of Transportation National Advanced Driving Simulator. He supervised 46 students to PhD degrees and published 300 refereed papers and 9 books. His research was recognized by prestigious ASME Machine Design and d’Alembert. Awards. After retirement in 2003, he spent a decade constructing cabinetry and furniture in an off-the-grid home in the mountains of southwest New Mexico, where he and his wife Carol live. Suffering from boredom, he returned to research in 2015, publishing 20 refereed journal articles and his tenth book.