Rock Your Research With Chris Jones

With young children and a job during graduate school, work life balance was a challenge, to say the least.  But Oliver managed to not only finish his dissertation, but to feel like a peer to his professors during his defense. Listen to Oliver share his best and worst grad school moments, and how he ultimately became an associate professor at Clemson University.  Oliver is an associate professor at Clemson University in the Mechanical Engineering department. His research focuses on the characterization of smart materials and smart structure mechanics of systems ranging from nano- to micro-scales. He received his PhD for the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2007. Biggest Struggle  Having a family while doing his PhD Worst Moment Having the professor in charge of his qualifying exam not respond and keep postponing his exam for many many months Best Moment His defense and feeling that he was finally a peer to professors he had looked up to. Mindful Minutes Segment Habit: Time management Book: