B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1965.
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1967.
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1969.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, 1979-present.
Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1974-79.
Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1970-74.
Experience in aerospace, tire, rubber, automotive, bearing and chemical-steel industries, as well as government agencies, NASA, the U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force.

Member: ASME and Tire Society of America.

University Researcher of the Year, 1986.
A.T. Colwell Merit Award-Society of Automotive Engineers, 1988.
Certificate of Recognition, NASA, 1988.
Best Paper Award, Tire Society, 1990.
College of Engineering, Researcher of the Year, 1991.

Analvtical and computational nonlinear continuum mechanics, applied stress, finite element analysis, tire mechanics, applied mathematics, heat transfer, and polymer materials.

Reviewer for numerous technical journals, government agencies, corporations.

Presented numerous professional seminars for industry both in the U.S. and abroad.

Consultant to aerospace, tire, automotive, and chemical/ steel industries.