He was a professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan during 1970-1989. Dr. Kapur has worked with General Motors Research Laboratories as a senior research engineer. He has also worked with Ford Motor Company as a visiting scholar and the U.S. Army, Tank-Automotive Command as a reliability engineer. He has served on the Board of Directors of American Supplier Institute, Inc., Dearborn, Michigan.Dr. Kapur received a Bachelor's degree (1963) in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Delhi University; M. Tech. degree (1965) in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology; M.S. degree (1967) in Operation Research; and Ph.D. degree (1969) in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has co-authored the book Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons. He has written chapters on reliability and quality engineering for several handbooks such as Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Design. He has published over forty papers in technical, research and professional journals. He is a member of ORSA, TIMS, IIE, ASQC, and ASEE. He is on the editorial board of journals such as Quality Engineering and Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is a registered professional engineer. Dr. Kapur has received funding from OCAST (Oklahoma Center for Applied Science and Technology), General Motors, Ford, US Army Tank-Automotive Command and NSF.