Faculty & Staff

Education
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, 1962

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1963

Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, City University of New York, 1969

Honors & Awards

• ASME Life Fellow
• In 1995, ASME honored fundamental paper (1969) on the balancing of linkages by being named one of the five greatest contributions in the mechanisms field since 1945. Now in university textbooks.
• Machine Design Award, CCNY and Machinery Magazine.
  

Areas of Active Research
Dynamics of Machines and Mechanisms, Balancing of Linkages

Courses Taught
The City College of the City University Of New York, Lecturer, M.E. Dept., Taught Stress Analysis, Vector Mechanics and Mechanical Systems, and Thermodynamics.

Industrial Experience
Erie Plastics, Sr. Corporate Automation Manager
Weiler Corporation, Manager, Engineering & Manufacturing Support Services
Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Manager, Advanced Manufacturing & Systems Integration
Gulf+Western, Advanced Development & Engng. Center, Group Mgr., Planning/ Tech. Services
American Can Company, Corporate R&D Laboratory, Research Associate

Publications

"Steel Mill Material Handling Simulation Study," Presented at 6th Annual Scientific Computing and Automation Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 1990 (with T. Milici).

"Simulation of an Integrated Mail Handling System in an Automated Bulk Mail Center," Proceedings, USPS Advanced Technology Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 167 178, United States Postal Service, May 1988 (with C. I. Pai and J. J. Rowley).

"The Second Ten Years: A Bibliography," Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 81 120, 1988.

Institutional Service
Stevens Mechanical Engineering Dept. responsibilities include: teaching engineering classes, coordinating Engineering Graphics program, supervising Senior Design Project, starting up and coordinating (as Director) a new graduate program in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practices, and other academic functions.

• Corry Area Fine Arts Council, Member, Board of Directors (1999 to 2001)
• Artists’ Guild, Treasurer (2000 to 2001)
• FIRST Robotics Team, Corry Area High School, Technical Advisor (1999 to 2001)

Main Line School Night, a non profit community education organization which conducts approximately 400 separate courses to 10,000 adults each year. Member, Board of Directors (1984 date); Chairman, Strategic Planning Committee (1987 97); Member, Financial Planning Committee (1988 97).

Professional Service (Papers Reviewer):
ASME, CSME (Canada), Applied Mechanics Reviews, Shock and Vibration Digest, Mechanism and Machine Theory, National Science Foundation [proposals].

Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Technology (CAMtech in NW Penna.), Chairman of industrial/academic curriculum committee for Automation Technician degree (1999 to 2001).

Professional Societies

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Life Fellow
• International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE), Member
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers/Robotics International (SME/RI), Sr. Member
• Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Member