He brings a new area of expertise to undergraduate majors: how to analyze the neurophysiological and psychophysiological responses of users of information technology. Minas has twice been awarded “Shidler Professor of the Semester” during his early semesters of teaching. Colleagues attribute the doubling in student enrollment in this major to the teaching rapport of Minas with his students. They appreciate that in a class of 40 students, Minas devises a wide-ranging set of learning assessment tools so that he can personalize his mentoring process, because “students with different personalities need different assessment techniques.” A graduate student expresses three characteristics that enable him to accomplish this and to bring out the best in students: his collaborative teaching style, his patience and his optimism.