Education

• Ph.D. – Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
  
  , Baton Rouge La., USA, 1973
• M.Sc. – Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge La., USA, 1970
• B.Sc. – Amirkabir University of Technology
  Amirkabir University of Technology
  Amirkabir University of Technology , formerly called the Tehran Polytechnic is a public research university located in Tehran, Iran. AUT is one of the most prestigious universities and the first established technical university in Iran...
  
   (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran 1968

Recognition and awards

• ASME Fellow member
• AIAA Associate Fellow member
• Fellow Iran Academy of Science,Head of mechanical engineering branch (1992–95),Chairman of Engineering section (2003..)
• National Secretary of the ISME
  ISME
  Iranian Society Of Mechanical engineering founded in 1991 by some Iranian Mechanical engineers and professors to develop and enhance Mechanical Engineering in Iranian universities and industries...
  
  Honor members committee.
• Distinguished Professor ; Amirkabir University of Technology 1991, and 1997,2002
• ASME 1994 Award Plaque, American Society of Mech. Eng.(ASME), ASME-ESDA Conf. London, July 1994
• ISME 1996 Plaque recipient, National distinguished Professor
• ASME 1996 Award plaque ASME-ESDA conf. Montpellier, France, July 1996
• 1998 ESDA Award PLaque, Society for Design and Process Science, Third World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Tech.,1998, Berlin, Germany.
• ASME Award PLaque, American Society of MechanicalEngineers, Petroleum Div., ESDA 2000 Conference, Montreux, Switzerland, July 10–13, 2000.
• ASME Petroleum Div. Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Petroleum Div., ESDA 2000 Conference, Montreux, Switzerland, July 10–13, 2000.
• Nationally distinguished researcher, Ministry of Higher Education,Iran, 2002.
• Nationally distinguished Professor, Ministry of Higher Education, Iran, 2003.

Books

• Editor: " Design: Analysis, Synthesis, and Application, Vol. C " Pub. ASME, New York, 1994
• Co-Editor: " Design: Analysis, Synthesis, and Application, Vol. A" Pub. ASME, New York, 1994
• Co-Editor: " Design: Analysis, Synthesis, and Application, Vol. B" Pub. ASME, New York, 1994
• Editor: " Computational and Thermomechanic, Proc. ASME-ESDA conf. ASME, New York, 1996
• Co-Editor: " General Design Analysis, Considerations and Applications - Education., Vol. 6, SDPS, Texas, 1998.
• Author: Theory of Thermoelasticity, (in English), to be published by Amirkabir University Press.
• Author: A First Course in Finite Element Analysis, (in English), Amirkabir University Press,2003
• Co-Author with Professor R. B. Hetnarski, Rochester Inst. of Tech., New York, Thermal Stresses-Advanced Theory and Applications, Springer, 2008.