Extracurricular Activities
Construction-Masonry, Skiing, Fiddle Music
A Little Bit About Me
I live with my wife of 10 years and our dog in a small house we built together in the backyard of her parents' Ashland home. We try to get outside into beautiful Southern Oregon as much as we can, by foot, ski, bike, and raft. I'm looking forward to spending more time in the Klamath Falls area, as I love many of the natural wonders of the area, and I know I will enjoy getting to know the town as well.
Why I Chose Oregon Tech and My Major
I chose Oregon Tech because I live in the area, and the emphasis on hands-on education. I chose structural engineering to bring together my experience in construction and my appreciation for the elegance of math and good design.
My Influential Professors
Dr. Lindgren has been very helpful as I establish my path to OIT as a transfer student. For the first time in many years, I'm back at school, taking courses in calculus, engineering, physics, and chemistry at Rogue, Mt Hood, and Portland Community Colleges. I am very grateful to each of the professors I have worked with over the past year in the community college system, all of them dedicated individuals making a difference, as well as to the institutions themselves. Community colleges are uniquely positioned to help many of us find our educational footing, both non-traditional students like myself as well as recent high school graduates.
My Greatest Learning Experience At Oregon Tech
I have been working in construction for 15 years. I look forward to bringing the hand-on learning, experience with craftsmanship and design, and joys of working hard as a team to Oregon Institute of Technology and eventually the field or structural engineering.
My Plans After Graduation
I plan to leverage the tools of structural engineering to help reduce the embodied carbon in construction by designing with bio-based materials. Currently, construction emits a huge percentage of carbon dioxide pollution, but we can turn that around by using buildings to store carbon from crop residue and timber products. Often outside the conventional construction box, these buildings will require novel engineering solutions.