Beruflicher Werdegang ab Studienabschluss
seit 07/2011
- Regents Professor and Carl and Gladys Herrington Chair in Advanced Materials, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State Univ.
seit 1989
- Guest Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
seit 03/2000
- Member of the Faculty, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University
04/2014
- Russell Severance Springer Professor, Mechanical Eng., University of California, Berkeley
01/2013-08/2013
- Mercator Fellow, Foundation Institute for Materials Science, Laboratory for Precision Machining, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
07/2005 – 06/2011
- Regents Professor and Tom J. Cunningham Chair, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State Univ.
12/2003 – 7/2004
- Mercator Gastprofessur, IWT Stiftung Institut für Werkstofftechnik, Universität Bremen
10/2002 – 06/2005
- Professor and Tom J. Cunningham Chair, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., Oklahoma State Univ.
03/1999 – 08/1999
- Faculty Guest Scientist (in residence), Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
07/1999 – 09/2002
- Tom J. Cunningham Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State Univ.
06/1998 – 01/1999
- Gastprofessor and Alexander von Humboldt Preisträger, IWT Stiftung Institut für Werkstofftechnik, Universität Bremen
07/1996 – 06/1999
- Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University
1990 – 1996
- Associate Professor,School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University
1988 – 1989
- Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
1982 – 1988
- Manager, Adv. Process Design/Development, Luke Tool and Engineering Co., Hammonton, NJ
Mitgliedschaften
- APS: American Physical Society
- ASPE: American Society for Precision Engineering
- ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Böhmische Physical Society
- MRS: Materials Research Society
- SME: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- CIRP: International Academy for Production Engineering
Auszeichnungen
2014
- Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, SME
2014
- Russell Severance Springer Professorship, Univ. of California, Berkeley
2013
- Mercator Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
2010
- OSU Eminent Faculty Award, Oklahoma State University
2006
- Fellow, ASME
2005
- Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.), Universität Bremen
2003
- Fellow, SME
1999
- Fellow, CIRP
1998
- Halliburton Outstanding Faculty Award, Oklahoma State University
1998
- Distinguished Service Award, ASPE
1997
- Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis
1990
- SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
1972 – 1976
- John McMullen Scholar, Cornell University