Zaborszky earned a master's degree and PhD in 1937 and 1943, respectively, "under auspices of the Regent of Hungary" from the
Technical University of Budapest. He continued as a
docent at that institution and was chief engineer of the city's municipal power system before emigrating to the United States in 1947. He was an assistant professor at
UMR and in 1954 moved to
St. Louis to join Washington University. In 1974, he founded and was first chairman of the Systems Science Department. He was the 1970 President of the
IEEE Control Systems Society and he received its Distinguished Member Award in 1983. He was an
IEEE Fellow and was elected to
Eta Kappa Nu (ΗΚΝ). ==References==