While waiting for immigration visas to be issued, Sabersky passed the entrance exams and briefly attended the Swiss Federal Technical Institute or ETH Zurich.
[4] In 1939, Sabersky entered California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a sophomore in the mechanical engineering program.
On December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan occurred and brought the United States into World War II.
As an undergraduate student while pursuing his studies at Caltech, Sabersky had noteworthy professors that included: Donald S. Clark, Frederic W. Hinrichs, Robert L. Daugherty, Robert T. Knapp, Franklin Thomas, William Hayward Pickering, Romeo R. Martel, William B. Munro, and James W. Daily.
After his senior year at Caltech, Sabersky worked in mechanical design on the Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel under Mark Serrurier and Hap Richards.
Sabersky went to work under Martin Summerfield where the team was involved with the development of sustained duration liquid rocket engines.
[3] Sabersky was part of an engineering team with Chandler C. Ross and Marvin Stary, who were also Caltech graduates.
During WW II, Aerojet also provided some support for early work by GALCIT on their Private and Corporal missiles.
James Van Allen, then supervisor of the High Altitude Research Group of the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University, visited Sabersky at Aerojet in 1946 to survey their rocket capabilities, and this included the Ajax.
As a result, Van Allen persuaded the US Navy to support development and initial production of what came to be known as the Aerobee family.
In 1949, he joined the Caltech faculty as a member of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science as assistant professor.
The recently hired colleagues of Sabersky were: David Shotwell Wood, material science; Charles H. Wilts, electrical engineering; Robert B. Leighton, professor of physics; and Frank E. Marble.
The well established colleagues of his were: Rannie, Hudson, Kyropoulos, Dino A. Morelli, professor of engineering design.
[13][14][15] The problem of free convection in Bénard cells was investigated by Sabersky with Richard Carl Nielsen.
[16][17] Duane Floyd Dipprey worked on the issue of the effect of heat transfer to fluids flowing in rough surfaced tubes.
[18][19] Paul Maurice Debrule built upon the rough tubes research and continued with the application to polymer solutions.
Gordon Peterson was the student that drove his automobile over the Los Angeles freeways to measure the ozone levels and record the data inside his vehicle.