Dr. Jeffrey R. Mountain is a Professor and Program Chair Mechanical Engineering Program at College of Science and Engineering in the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Dr. Mountain's primary areas of expertise have been Mechatronics, Industrial Robotics, Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Laser Fabrication Applications and has published papers related to powder coating and particle technology. He has been heavily involved in the scholarship of engineering education, attracting and retaining engineering students and the pedagogy of design engineering.