them were in the engineering field going for mechanical civil environmental biomechanical bioengineering biophysics so they're all within the science and engineering fields when did you know you wanted to teach? when i was in high school i come from a long bloodline of teachers in my family my aunts my uncle was an engineer my father was an educator my mother was an educator so in high school i started tutoring with the natural honors society when i was a junior and that's when i knew that there was something i wanted to get into how do you keep the passion? that's a good question every year you try and look... 22 years for you? yes 22 years? yes go ahead you try and look at... my personal philosophy is try and make things better try and look to tweak things try and come up with new ideas look to see what's out there in the world today see what we can bring into the classrooms and it makes it exciting and keep an open mind about things and it works and it really does work for those who think they know what teaching is all about you guys you get the good deal right? you get the summers and [laughter