
Professor Omni Rand (1954-2025) was the professor emeritus at the Aerospace Engineering Department and director of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology.
Professor Rand was a fellow of the Vertical Flight Society and a leading authority in rotary-wing theory, rotorcraft aeromechanics, anisotropic elasticity and composite structures. He authored the textbook Analytical Methods in Anisotropic Elasticity, which remains a foundational reference in the field of composite material analysis.
Learn more about Professor Rand from Technion on In Memoriam pages of VFS' Vertiflite, November/December 2025.
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