Why “Learning Plumber”?

You may have heard the title “Learning Engineers”: people who are skillful enough to build cool tools for better learning. I started calling myself a “Learning Plumber” a while ago becasue:

  1. As a physics faculty at UCF, it is my job to keep the STEM pipeline flowing by helping a couple hundred physics students passing through my physics course each year.
  2. I’m not a software developer, but I love to grab new and cool tools from engineers, such as LLMs, to patch leaks and unclogg that STEM pipeline.
  3. I have a lovely wife and two lovely daughters….I’m destined to be THE PLUMBER in our house for the rest of my life!!!

More fun facts and background info about the learning plumber himself can be found on this page.