He worked at Douglas Aircraft Company, and later he founded and chaired the Aerospace Engineering Department at California State University in Long Beach, USA.
In 1963, he married at New Hope Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Sylvia Ann Holt (born 1941),[2] whom he had met at the university two years prior.
The next year, Cebeci received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
[3] After completing his doctoral studies, Cebeci moved with wife and their newborn daughter to Long Beach, California to join Douglas Aircraft Company as a research scientist.
He became the first distinguished professor in the mechanical engineering department of California State University (CSU) in Long Beach in 1977.