He earned BS and PhD degrees in chemical en-gineering from MSU in 2002 and 2007 while enjoying collaborative research experi-ences at Arcomac Surface Engineering in Bozeman and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. Since 2008, Paul has been on the faculty at MSU where he directs a high-temperature materials laboratory and has increasingly engaged in engineering education research and development. His laboratory has produced over two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles describing research by numerous graduate students and undergraduate students, and he is author of Introduction to Energy, Environment and Sustainability, 3rd Ed., published by Kendall Hunt. Paul is one of the MSU faculty affiliated with the Materials Science Ph.D. program.