Introduction

Ferenc Ronkay is a Hungarian mechanical engineer with over 15 years of experience in academia and the industrial area. After spending ten years at Budapest University of Technology and Economics as Assistant Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor he works as a Research and Development group leader for one of the biggest Hungarian plastic processing companies (over 3000 employees). In addition, he became the head of an independent accredited Material Testing Laboratory at Imsys Ltd. He has trained 4 Ph.D., 35 MSc, and 32 BSc students, written one university textbook, published over 70 papers and book chapters.