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 41 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, and my wife Claudia and I have traveled across 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.