Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I am a guy who was born sometime before the start of the second world war, and after about 35 years of education in the U. S. military/industrial complex I graduated and started my real career as a science education coach.

I don't have a picture scanner handy so here is a quick word portrait. I'm sort of an ordinary looking guy, a little round in the belly, quite bald on the head. I wear glasses and smile a lot.

I grew up on an island on the Maine coast where I was a lobster catcher for a while.

Then I did some college at the University of Maine , in electrical engineering. At the end of my sophomore year, in 1961, I joined the U. S. Navy in the submarine nuclear propulsion business. I have been reactor operator, reactor controls officer, communications officer, chief engineer and executive officer of nuclear submarines.

About 1965, the Navy decided that I would be more useful if I were better educated so they sent me to the University of North Carolina where I got BS degrees in mathematics and physics. In between submarine assignments I was sent by the Navy to ABB Combustion Engineering (1 year), General Electric (2 years) and Penn State University (2 years) to teach various technical topics.

In 1981 I left the Navy and joined GPU Nuclear Co. to help with the aftermath of an incident you may have heard of at their Three Mile Island site. My principle job was to teach nuclear engineering to their newly hired engineers. In 1984 I went to work for another GPU company (now Reliant Energy) as director of their Portland generating Station.

While at GPU I became an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in the Environmental Science Department and lectured at the University of Idaho on power plant operations. I am currently a consultant to Thomas Edison State College of Trenton, New Jersey.

I have written some run-time books which include embeded mathematical models of real physical systems so that students can conduct experiments to reinforce the material being covered by the text. Two of the texts have partially been translated into the Java language so they can be read from the world wide web. To find out more about the run-time books click on:
Physics-1 An interactive run-time book for science and engineering students and teachers
Order - A closer look at chaos
DynaLab - A dynamical systems laboratory
MechLab - A classical mechanics math modeling laboratory
ChaosLab - A laboratory in chaos fundamentals
Physics_T - A collection of loose ends from basic physics
For the those Java versions available, see
Order - a closer look at chaos.
Physics-1 - for science students

I have been married to the lovely Sharon(sorry, no picture) for 45 years more or less. We have children in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Florida and Washington (state not DC). We have four granddaughters and a grandnson. Our cup, as the saying goes, runneth over. In 1993 Sharon and I started a computer-aided education company called M. Casco Associates. So, here we are.