BYU employee since 2005.

My job at BYU is to teach and inspire students interested in acoustics and physics. As department chair, I try to keep 50% of faculty, staff and students happy at least 50% of the time.

Im currently working on… understanding Workday.

My favorite Cougar athletes areOlympians Kenneth Rooks and Conner Mantz. I love the way they run tough! Rooks at the Olympic trials when he won after falling mid-race. Then when he took off with a lap to go at the Olympics and won silver. And Conner, Ive watched him run fearlessly at the front of the pack, no matter the competition or the distance.

My favorite lecture to teach is principles of acoustic and spiritual power. Like a lot of physics and gospel parallels, it can be taught at a relatively simple level, but this one becomes only more profound the more you understand the physics and the gospel.

My advice to incoming freshmen is all you really need to know about being successful at BYU you learned in Primary. 

Students dont think I notice when theyre silently struggling.

My favorite part about teaching is seeing a student get a difficult concept after wrestling with it. Their excitement in figuring out a physics principle is contagious.

My go-to comfort food is olive oil and sea salt popcorn!

The title of my autobiography would be “Loud things and how to measure them,” or maybe, “Where the loud things are.”

My favorite quote is we can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean. 

My favorite joke is a good dad joke repeated often, particularly in the car where you have a captive audience. For example, while driving toward Salt Lake on I-80 West: Hey, kids! Look! ECHO CANYON (pause for dramatic effect) Echo Canyon echo canyon.  Or, while entering the Virgin River Gorge with students enroute to (and from) California: What did the mountain say to the canyons? Hey, gorges!