Mike is currently the Executive Director of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and an international management consultant. In 1995 he retired from 18 years service with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) as the Director for International and External Programs in the Office of Science & Technology. He also previously served as the Head of the Gas Dynamics and Thermophysics Laboratory in UTC’s Research Centre. Prior to that he was a Professor of Engineering for 10 years on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He started his career as a researcher in the US Naval Department Laboratories in Maryland. He has 12 patents, advised and graduated 14 PhDs, has published over 40 papers in referred journals and is a Fellow of the American Institute Of Aeronautics and Astronautics.