Flügge-Lotz conducted pioneering studies of aircraft wing lift distribution and made significant contributions to modern aeronautic design. She served as an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as well as to German and French research institutes. During an era when there were few women engineers, Flügge-Lotz was named the first female professor in Stanford University's College of Engineering. Describing her 20-year career at Stanford, John R. Spreiter, and Wilhelm Flügge wrote in Women of Mathematics, "her work in fluid mechanics was directed toward developing numerical methods for the accurate solution of problems in compressible boundary-layer theory. She pioneered the use of finite-difference methods for such purposes and was quick to employ the emerging capability of computers to deal with the large computations inherent in the use of these methods . . . She applied these methods to solve a series of important...