- My name is Scott Hamilton and I am an associate professor and the coordinator of the Civil Engineering Program. You might get that much difference in your machining of a piece. I took a kind of unusual path, in that I was an Army officer. I went to West Point and then I served in the Army for a little over 26 years. During that time I had an opportunity as an assignment to teach civil engineering at the US Military Academy at West Point, where I had gone to school. And got hooked on teaching civil engineering. Another string gauge, but we orient it... I think the most exciting thing about York College and civil engineering is that it's brand new. It really gives us a blank slate, so we can do what we think is right and what's gonna be the best for the students. And, you know, it's gonna give us an opportunity to do some things that are a little different, a little new. And then can I get a stress strain curve? One of the big complaints of engineering is "Well, how am I gonna ever use this?" and all. So that's kind of how I treat every lesson, is I need to make sure that they see that what they're doing has a relation, how it relates to the real world. Strain curve. Ah, so if I cana strain curve... When you're working with students you get those times when you see they've got it. Maybe they've struggled, maybe it's a student who hasn't done all that well, but all of a sudden has taken it up a notch, taken it up a level. Or, the student that's been struggling and then makes it over the line. As opposed to just the length, and yeah you could possible do it. It's a great age of figuring out who they are, they're looking for how their going to model their life, whether professional role models, personal role models, whatever. So, it's just a dynamic time in their life, and to get be a part of it for a little bit is pretty rewarding and exciting.