Dr. Noboru (Nobo) Yonemitsu has worked in the Department of Civil Engineering in several different capacities since February 1992. He studied Engineering Physics at Hokkaido University, Japan, where he specialized in Turbulent Fluid Dynamics and Instrumentation of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) and received his M.A.Sc. from the same institute before coming to Canada in 1986. He earned a Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Alberta, based on his research in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. From 1990-2009, Nobo worked as a research scientist/project engineer/NDT consultant with various organizations including: Northwest Hydraulics Consultants (Edmonton, Vancouver), NASA (Johnson Space Center), UBC, UNBC, BCIT, Oki Electronics, Intel, various defence departments, nuclear power plants, and some of the world's major airline companies.