Florida. He is the author of the textbook-Mechanics of Composite Materials, CRC-LLC Press. With major funding from National Science Foundation, he is developing award winning web-based resources for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. He is the recipient of the 2004 CASE Florida Professor of the Year and the 2003 ASEE Archie Higdon Distinguished Mechanics Educator Award. His current scholarly interests include development of instructional technologies, integrating research in classroom, thermal stresses, computational mechanics, and mechanics of nonhomogeneous nanolayers.