In this episode, I (Madhav) interview Adam Disque, an environmental engineering Masters student at Texas Tech University who earlier served in the US Air Force as a Bio-environmental Engineer. I met Adam last summer when he was interning at Raytheon in Tucson, where I am doing my PhD. In fact, this episode was recorded then. While most of the people we have interviewed and plan to interview on this podcast are well established in their fields, Adam isn’t as yet–he is a student. However, he makes up for that with some very useful insight into how engineers think. Added to that, his experience in the US Air Force makes the discussion even more interesting.