is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University. Pat received his PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has fifteen years of industrial experience in the casting and silicon wafer manufacturing industries. Pat is registered as a PE in the states of Ohio, Michigan and Washington.
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