Leonid BursteinLeonid Burstein served as associate staff member at ORT Braude College of Engineering, Program Engineering Department. Before that he taught at the Technion -IIT, at Kinneret Academic College, Engineering School, at Haifa University, and at several oher academic institutions. Following an MA in thermophysics at Lomonosov Technological Institute at Odessa, Ukraine, and a doctorate at the National Research Institute for Physical and Radio Engineering Measurements at Moscow, he obtained his PhD in physical properties of materials from the Heat/Mass Transfer Institute of the Belarus Academy of Science, Minsk, in 1974. After a short period of work in Russia and Belarus, Dr Burstein started his carrier at the Piston Ring Institute in Odessa, where he served as Head of Projects and Head of the CAD/CAM group. In 1991-2002 he worked at the Technion – IIT, Israel, at the Faculty of ME, in the QAR Program at the Faculty of IEM. Scientific works of Dr Burstein has been reported in more than 60 publications in leading scientific journals. He is author and contributor of published textbooks, monographs, and an Editorial Board member and reviewer for a number of international scientific journals. Read More Read Less