"Dr. Nickolaus M. B. earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2015 with a dissertation titled "The magnetocaloric and elastocaloric effects in magnetic shape memory alloys". Before earning his PhD, he worked as a graduate teaching assistant at Northern Arizona University where he studied energy harvesting using martensite variant reorientation. In the years following the completion of his doctorate, he worked at Intel Corporation as a process engineer (~ 3 yrs) and a professor in the mechanical engineering department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (~5.5 yrs).

As a professor, he taught undergraduate mechanical vibrations and machine design classes and developed a graduate course in multifunctional materials. He has been tutoring and teaching undergraduate and graduate students since 2007 both on an individual basis and in the classroom with class sizes ranging from 7 to 60.

Currently, Dr. B. works in research for the federal government.

Current interests and tutoring capabilities include:

1. Mathematics (up to partial differential equations and applied mathematics)

2. Solid mechanics (mechanics of materials, statics, dynamics, vibrations)

3. Materials science (thermodynamics of materials)

4. Theory and design of experiments" less...