Mouri selim biography of william

Egyptian engineer

William Selim Hanna (–), born in Assiut, Egypt وليم سليم حنا, was an Egyptian Minister of Housing. A prominent structural engineer, Hanna completed his education in Alexandria and Cairo and graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University in with an engineering diploma.

He then traveled to England and joined the University of Birmingham, where he earned a bachelor's degree with first place honors in Civil Engineering in He studied for a doctorate in the same university and received his PhD in

Positions held

After getting his PhD, he returned to Egypt for the post of Lecturer at the Department of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, in .

When the Research Laboratory of Concrete was created at the Faculty of Engineering in Cairo University in with the support of Cebu Tariv, an engineering professor at Princeton University, Hanna became its director.

In he was appointed Director of the Resear