Ahmed K. Noor’s current professional activities focus on intelligent design and synthesis environments, advanced learning technologies, aerospace structures, structural and computational mechanics, multiscale modeling, simulation and visualization, and new computing systems.

Eminent Scholar and William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Dr. Noor is also the Director of the Old Dominion University’s Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, funded by NASA in Hampton, Virginia. He is also adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, and the Florida Space Research Institute Distinguished Scholar of Advanced Learning Systems. He taught at Stanford University, Cairo University (Egypt), University of Baghdad (Iraq), the University of New South Wales (Australia), George Washington University and the University of Virginia before joining Old Dominion University.

While away from teaching, he leads the Mosque and Islamic Center of the Hampton Roads as its Imam (an Islamic leader of a Mosque)  in order to enlighten fellow brothers and sisters of the Islamic ways and values.