BS [President’s Honor Roll], Washington State University, 1983; MS, Washington State University, 1984; PhD, Washington State University, 1992.

Numerous awards including the Neill Griffiths Memorial Best Paper Award at the 18th and 17th International Symposium on Ballistics, the Bellman Best Paper Award at the Fifth International Mathematical Modeling Conference, Best Poster Paper Award at the 42nd Annual Denver X-ray Conference and eleven U.S. Army Research and Development Awards.  Technical Committee member for the International Detonation Symposium.