Dr. Leonid Burstein is a Senior Lecturer and core staff member of the Quality Assurance Department at Kinneret College. He also works as a Lecturer at Large at ORT Braude College, in the Biotechnology and Software Engineering Departments, teaches at The Technion, Haifa, and at a number of other colleges and high schools in Western and Lower Galilee.

Following research for his Master of Science degree in Thermophysics at Lomonosov Technological Institute at Odessa, Ukraine, and a doctoral study at the National Research Institute for Physical- and Radio-Engineering Measurements in Moscow, Russia, Burstein 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 working in Russia and Belarus, Burstein started his career at the Piston Ring Institute in Odessa, Ukraine, where he served from 1974 to 1990 as Head of Projects and Head of the CAD/CAM group. From 1991, he began working at The Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, in the Quality Assurance and Reliability Program at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and at the Taub Computer Center as advisor for MATLAB® and other scientific software. He also worked at The Technion Research and Development Foundation as a principal researcher for funded projects in various areas such as diesel tribology and environment control. He has taught various courses at The Haifa University, at The Technion, at Kinneret College, and elsewhere. He also teaches a MATLAB® course for mathematicians and biotechnologists at ORT Braude College.

Dr. Burstein is an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for a number of international journals and a Committee Member of conferences. He is the author of several patents, two textbooks, and four chapters in scientific books. His achievements have been published in more than 70 publications of leading scientific journals.

Dr. Burstein can be contacted at:

Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, School of Engineering, Quality Assurance Department, M.P. Jordan Valley, 15132, Israel

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