He received his Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of Technology and B.E. from The Cooper Union. Since joining The Cooper Union in 2009, he has taught more than half the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum. Currently, he teaches the undergraduate laboratory course sequence and the graduate transport phenomena sequence. Recently, he has developed and introduced new elective courses on particle technology and pharmaceutical engineering. His research interests include particle technology, multiphase flow and fluidization, pharmaceutical engineering, modeling of transport and biotransport phenomena, and engineering education. Dr. Lepek is a member of AIChE, ASEE, and ISPE.