- Department: Aerospace Engineering
- University: Cal Poly-Pomona
- Location: Fullerton, California
I received Christ as my savior when I was 13 years old during an evening church service after hearing a talk by Gottfried Reichel, a former German member of the Hitler Youth in WWII. He shared how Christ changed his life through meeting a Christian American GI among the rubble of his bombed out city. Seven years later, I met my dear wife, June, during a bus trip to a college Navigator conference in Estes Park, Colorado, when I was at Cal Poly Pomona majoring in Aerospace Engineering and she was at Biola University majoring in Math. We have been married and serving the Lord together since 1971 with 2 daughters and 5 grand kids. One of the most exciting interests I have is studying and sharing about the correlation of science and the Bible. Being an engineer by training, I find overwhelming evidence of intelligent design in all of nature. This perspective comes from my 36 years working at Rockwell/Boeing after trying to design complex aircraft , spacecraft, and launch vehicles that can actually function as intended. Comparing intentional complexity of a flying machine's thousands of parts, subsystems and interfaces all being able to be technologically developed at the needed maturity level, and all properly working together at the same time, compared to the improbability of even more complex "living machines" in nature to function successfully with out a "designer" says to me that the universe must have been designed with a purpose, and our lives matter to the "designer".
Favorite Quote
"A man that cannot figure his income tax should not be surprised if he cannot understand God." - E.V. Hill
Friends describe me
enthusiastic, dedicated
My hobbies
Science and the Bible, Dobbsland backyard theme park for the grand kids
Fantasy dinner guests
Dr. Wernher von Braun, Orville Wright, Dr. Hugh Ross, Apostle Peter
Best advice I ever received
Marry June
My undergrad alma mater
Cal Poly Pomona
My worst subject in school
Freshman physics
In college I drove
Ford Falcon station wagon
If I weren't a professor, I would
still be working at Boeing, or at Disney Imagineering
Favorite books
The Holy Bible, The Fingerprint of God by Dr. Hugh Ross, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Favorite movies
Contact (1997), Star Wars: A New Hope, Sound of Music, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Favorite city
Munich, Germany
Favorite coffee
Starbucks Espresso
Nobody knows I
...like the Dodgers (but not as much as the Angels)
My latest accomplishment
Switching from face-to-face classroom instruction to virtual instruction
Current Research
1. "Flying Battery Electric UAV" (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ): replace conventional aircraft structure with power storage and power generation devices that have structural strength to reduce parasitic weight. 2. Particle Image Velocimetry flow visualization system: system integration and research in the Cal Poly Pomona low speed wind tunnel.