Anthony K. Amos *66

Amos received a bachelor’s in civil engineering from McGill University, a master’s in structural mechanics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Princeton in 1966. He was a specialist in spacecraft dynamics and control.

After working in industry and government (including Boeing, the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research, and NASA), Amos joined Penn State’s faculty in 1989. He was director of graduate admissions for aerospace engineering plus his department’s director of graduate studies. He retired in 1999.

At the time of his death, Amos was teaching mathematics and engineering at three universities in Ghana and supervising graduate students as a volunteer for the Interna-
tional Foundation for Education and Self-Help, fulfilling his desire to improve engineering literacy in the United States and the developing world.

Amos is survived by three sons and one grandson. He was buried in Accra, Ghana.

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