dana jacobsen has the story from california's uc davis. >> the main goal today is to illustrate the principlerter: bill isn't your average chemical engineering professor. >> part a, we're going to be doing a whole bunch of brews in the mr. coffee. use the same amount of water every time, but systematically vary the mass of the coffee grounds. >> reporter: in his introduction to chemical engineering class, the design of coffee, students get to discover the science inside a cup of joe. >> and then part b, this is real exciting we get to do our first roast. are you guys excited about that? okay, cool, right? >> reporter: he started the class in 2013 as a freshman seminar. the idea came to him during, what else, a coffee break with a colleague. >> we were drinking coffee one day thinking about how to improve our engineering labs, and she suggested the idea of why don't we have our students take apart a mr. coffee drip. oh, my gosh, why don't we make a whole class about coffee. >> reporter: the class that started with just 18 students is now attended by 2,000 a year. its popularity was highlighted

he spoke with dana jacobsen. >> kobe's got another one. >> everybody has moments of brilliance. kobe was like that every night. and it was just a determination and a drive that he had that was irrepressible. >> reporter: kobe's drive was something he and six-time nba champion kareem abdul-jabbar shared, and that's not all. >> one of my ex-coaches, he described me as an assassin because i figured out what i had to do and i was ready when the time came to try to make that kill. >> yeah. >> kobe was like that. you had to be ready. you had to show what you were worth. kobe never took his foot off the gas. you got no brakes from kobe. >> reporter: the result, five championships in 20 seasons with >> mamba out. >> reporter: when kobe retired in 2016, kareem wrote a poem to honor bryant, which read in part "he brought poetry back to the game and to the hearts of the fans." when you watched him play, is that what you saw? >> absolutely poetry. i mean, he was an elegant athlete and a killer at the same time. the poetry and the results and the world championships, they're all a part of it

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