I obtained my Ph.D. in Engineering at Texas A&M University.  In my more than three decades in academia I have been on faculty at four major universities.  During my career I have taught 44 study abroad courses across the world in twenty countries on four continents.  I am multilingual (French and Italian), I have lived in Italy, France, Australia and Brazil, and my wife Claudia and I have traveled across much of the world. You can see images from many of our travels by hovering over the image at right until the arrows come up, then scroll through the photos.