SCHOLAR/SCIENTIST
Undergraduate
University of North Dakota: BS Physics, BSEE Electrical Engineering, and BSEP Engineering Physics
Argonne National Labs: I spent a semester and a summer during 1990 working at Argonne National Labs on High Tc Superconductors. I was entirely a lab monkey, running sample after sample in the sputtering system, tweaking oxygen content and trying to make good thermal contact. I really must thank Dr. Ken Gray for his patience. And thanks also to Dr. Jeremy Grace who proved a good guy, despite my best efforts. The other REU students made the experience unique and supremely enjoyable. Donovan, Lara, Helen, and the rest.
Cornell Supercomputing Center: Spent a great summer learning to program in parallel/vectorized FORTRAN on an IBM 3090 way back in 1989. I worked with Dr. Bill Schwalm who was a brilliant if demanding instructor.
Graduate School
Rice University: MS Applied Physics Thesis: Broadband UV Light Generated via Sum Frequency Mixing
Dr. Naomi Halas: My advisor at Rice.
Graduate School Again
Oklahoma State University: Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering (focusing on THz Research) Dissertation: Spatially Resolved Terahertz Propagation.
Dr. Alan Cheville: My advisor at OSU. We were grad students together under Dr. Halas at Rice University before my departure into military service.
REAL LIFE--Case study and team learning approach to teaching engineering.