Agnieszka Muszyńska (1935–2024) was a Polish-American mechanical engineer specializing in rotordynamics and the vibrations of rotating machinery.
Muszyńska was born in Warsaw on October 10, 1935. She earned a master's degree from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1960, including two years of study at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and a Ph.D. in 1966. She completed a habilitation in 1977 through the Polish Academy of Sciences. [1] [2]
From 1961 to 1980, Muszyńska worked as an associate professor in the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, including two years in the mid-1970s as a visiting researcher at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in France. [2]
In 1980, she emigrated to the US. After working as a visiting researcher at the University of Dayton in Ohio, she took a position in 1981 as a senior research scientist for the Bently Rotor Dynamics Research Corporation in Minden, Nevada. From 1985 to 1989 she also held a part-time affiliation as an associate professor of engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. [2]
She continued to work for Bently until 1999, [1] and founded a consulting business, A. M. Consulting, in 2000. [2]
She died on March 20, 2024. [3]
Muszyńska received the Gold Cross of Merit of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1975. In 1998 the president of Poland named her a professor of technical sciences, the highest-level academic degree in Poland. [2]
She was named as an ASME Fellow in 1994, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. [5]