University of Idaho
Professor of Mechanical Engineering: July 2007 – present
Interim Dean, College of Engineering: June 2021 – June 2022
Associate Dean, College of Engineering: February 2018 – June 2021
Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science: September 2017 – February 2018
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering: February 2009-June 2015
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering: July 2000 – June 2007
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, August 1994 – June 2000:
Fulbright Scholar, FH-Joanneum, Graz, Austria, February 2025-July 2025
Fulbright Scholar, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, September 2015-April 2016.
Engineer, Andrulis Research Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah. March 1988‑July 1992; September 1993-July 1994
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. July 1992‑June 1993
Visiting Assistant Professor and Instructor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. July 1991‑June 1992, December 1988-June 1991
Engineering Consultant, Hydroflame Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah. June 1988‑September 1988
Engineer, Hercules Aerospace Corp., Magna, Utah. June 1987‑September 1987
Sustaining Engineer, Litton Guidance and Control Systems, 1983-1984
ABET Program Evaluator, 2012-present
ABET Team Chair and EAC Member, 2020-present
Nominated, Annual Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Idaho, 2003-2004
Kodak Award for Excellent Visualized Image, Visualization Society of Japan, 2002
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow, 2001
Summer Faculty Researcher, Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 1997
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1996
Associated Western Universities Summer Faculty Fellow, 1995
Jesse and Mabel Hoffman Endowment Teaching Award, University of Idaho, 1995
Instructor of the Year, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 1990-1991
NSF Advanced Study Institute Travel Award, 1991
John F. McCarthy, Jr. Memorial Award for the research paper entitled, “Deterministic Analysis of a Free Shear Layer,” presented by the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences during its 17th Congress held in Stockholm, Sweden, 9‑14 September, 1990
Abe M. Zarem Award for the research paper entitled, “Deterministic Analysis of a Free Shear Layer,” presented by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reno, Nevada, January, 1990
California Alumni Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 1979‑1983
Spanish, working knowledge of German