The author is a retired engineer and lives with his wife on a small farm in north-central Alberta. They also spend some winter months at a cabin in the Gila Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. He...vizualizați mai multeThe author is a retired engineer and lives with his wife on a small farm in north-central Alberta. They also spend some winter months at a cabin in the Gila Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. He received post-secondary education at MIT (BS, 1962) and at University of New Mexico (PhD, 1967). He has been employed by Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque NM, by Oregon State University and by the University of Alberta, and most recently as an engineering consultant to the oil-sands industry in northern Alberta. The author enjoys reading, writing, hiking with his wife and dogs, and flying airplanes.vizualizați mai puține