Eduardo J. Veras graduated in 1987 with a BSME degree from the Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dom. Rep.

After graduation, he worked for a division of Philip Morris Corporation, in Santiago, where he worked in the manufacturing plant as a Maintenance Engineer.  In 1990, he moved to Puerto Rico to pursue a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in design and manufacturing from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus.  After graduating, he joined the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, PUPR, for several years, where he was teaching Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Mechatronics Lab, Numerical Methods, and Classical Control Systems.

In 2002, he began to take post-graduated coursework in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico with the interest of entering a PhD program.  After passing the comprehensive exams for entrance into the PhD program, he entered to the PhD program in the Mechanical Engineering Department in the University of South Florida. He completed his coursework during the summer of 2005 and he is currently a research assistant in Rehabilitation Robotics Center, USF.  Eduardo is completing the implementation phase of his project in the application of robotic technology and uncertain sensory information to assist the motion of persons with disabilities under the guidance of Dr. Rajiv Dubey.  As part of the requirements for this implementation, he developed a real-time framework running under QNX^®, a real-time operating system (RTOS).This system allows human-machine interactions between a Puma560 manipulator and an Omni Haptic Device in both joint and Cartesian space in real-time.