Diploma (Engineering), Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, 1970.
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974.
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Carnegie-Mellon University, 1978.

Collateral faculty, Ohio Aerospace Institute, 1990-present.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1989-present.
Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1984-88.
Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1980-83.
Faculty fellow, NASA (Cleveland, Ohio), summers 1981-84.
Design engineer, Design Institute for the Chemical Industry, 1971.

Member: ASME, 1988-present.

H.H. Jeffcott Award for the outstanding conference paper "Numerical and Analytical Study of Fluid Dynamic Forces in Seals and Bearings," 11th Biennial ASME Design Engineering Division, conference on vibration and noise, Boston, 1987.

NASA certificate of recognition for "Seals for Cryogenic Turbomachines," 1988.

NASA certificate of recognition for "Designing Ceramic Coating," 1988.

Best paper award, second place: "Flow Measurement With Nonintrusive Machine Vision," Instrument Society of America, Automatic Control Systems Division, 1989.

Two-phase flow and heat transfer, lubrication and bearing technology, image processing, non-intrusive measurements, and energy storage.

Consultant: Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1981-1985.

Associate editor: ASME Journal of Tribology, 1990.