I obtained my Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1980.  In my more than forty years in academia I have been on faculty at four major universities, including two as Dean of Engineering.  Over the past twenty-eight years I have taught 39 study abroad courses across the world in twenty countries on four continents.  I am also multilingual (French and Italian), and I have lived in Italy, France, Australia and Brazil.  My wife is Claudia, and you can see images from many of our travels by scrolling through the photos on this page.