For decades, Pete has merged his experience as a diver with his work as an educator. He uses diving examples in classes as diverse as thermodynamics and biomaterials to entrepreneurship and numerical analysis. Admittedly, his chemical engineering students are often surprised when he walks into class and opens a SCUBA cylinder to initiate a discussion on the thermodynamics of gas expansion. His dive students who make the mistake of lingering after class have witnessed his journey down a black whole of nerdiness into the more technical side of diving. This blog will start posting soon, and upcoming topics will include:
- The polymer science of exposure protection
- The chemistry of defogging agents
- Thermodynamics of high-pressure gases and will that cylinder go boom inside my hot car?
- Training and lung overexpansion injuries