Ansel C. Ugural, Ph.D., served for two decades as professor and chairman of the mechanical engineering department at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has also been a visiting and research professor of solid mechanics in mechanical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned his M.S. in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering mechanics.