Eminent Scholar, William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director of Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, Old Dominion University

Eminent Scholar, William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director of Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. He is also the Director of the Old Dominion University’s Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, funded by NASA in Hampton, Virginia. He is also adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. He taught at Stanford University, Cairo University (Egypt), University of Baghdad (Iraq), the University of New South Wales (Australia), George Washington University and the University of Virginia before joining Old Dominion University.

He is a Fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and of five professional societies: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, and the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. He is a Founding Member of both the International and U.S. Associations of Computational Mechanics, and is a Past President of USACM.

He has received several national awards; edited 30 books, and authored over 450 papers in the fields of advanced learning technology, intelligent synthesis environment, structural and computational mechanics.

His current professional activities focus on the following: future intelligent design and synthesis environments; novel learning technologies / paradigms; collaborative distributed visual simulations; structural and computational mechanics; multiscale modeling and simulation; and distributed immersive hyper-reality environments.