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Robert J.

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Dear Students,
I am an experienced tutor and teacher that has worked all of their entire life being multitasked with more than one job. I am currently tutoring and teaching both full time jobs. I am currently married, and I have two successful children, and a stepdaughter that is also successful. I have three successful careers with teaching/tutoring, engineering hands-on troubleshooting problems, and management. My children are successful because I never give tip on them, and they know...

Dear Students,
I am an experienced tutor and teacher that has worked all of their entire life being multitasked with more than one job. I am currently tutoring and teaching both full time jobs. I am currently married, and I have two successful children, and a stepdaughter that is also successful. I have three successful careers with teaching/tutoring, engineering hands-on troubleshooting problems, and management. My children are successful because I never give tip on them, and they know it. I have three grandchildren who also respect me, too. I love children and my family. I have had successful marriages, and my previous wife passed on with cancer, February 20, 2003. I never gave up on her, and I battled with the doctors, and this brings me to my next paragraph. I physically sat in a meeting in Minneapolis Hospital where my wife had aspirational pneumonia, and these doctors were being negative. I ask a question, "Are you giving up?" The reply was, "No." I stated, "Then, let us get the job done," and I walked out and slammed the door in their faces. I stepped to the plate, like I always have done, and was made it through out of intensive care. I kept her alive for another year.

I have another part of this story. I became interested in upper level Fluid Dynamics with the medical end when I began noticing several mistakes and other issues. I had to divert my mind when I was at the hospital everyday when I was not working. I developed a program along with a letter of intent to the Health Sciences of MIT, and I received a reply in two days. I was informed that this is rather fast from this school. I made a visit by invitation, and I almost started a doctorate level. I kept in touch with a professor by the name of Ruven Rosales, and this communication went on for years. He was overseas, and he continued communicating with me on the email. Later, I saw something at the other school that was close by, Harvard University, and I was up there, too, for a visit. I have continued reinstating the interest.

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Norhtern Illinois University
Math and Science
(University of Houston- main
Masters
Beloit College, Beloit WI, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota
Masters
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ACT Math

ACT Math

I have more than ten years of tutoring and teaching test taking techniques for answering ACT and SAT math test questions.
Algebra 1

Algebra 1

I have more than ten years of teaching Algebra 1.
Algebra 2

Algebra 2

I have more than ten years teaching Algebra. I have taught Algebra techniques that will be used in upper level classes.
Calculus

Calculus

I am currently teaching and tutoring. I have taught AP Calculus for many years with physics and chemistry. I have six college degrees, two master's degrees, and three engineering degrees. I have more than 10 years tutoring and teaching high school and college.
Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

I was a manager of a chemical process plant where I was involved with hands-on troubleshooting production problems where I have to make major decisions and organize teams of personnel such as the maintenance staff, other specialized personnel such as engineers, and equipment personnel who had special techniques on how to operate and fix these specific problem areas. The areas that were troubleshot included flow lines such as piping, controls, instrumentation, specialized vessels and mixing tanks, piping accessories, etc. I supervised designs and retrofit that means add ons. to any existing chemical plant. The education includes a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering with Petroleum Engineering background with Engineering Management and Logistics for Supply Chain Management and Strategic Planning from the University of Houston Central Campus, Ezekiel Cullen College of Engineering Building, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, Texas, 77004, May 1987. I specialized with Chemical Process Facilities with Automation and Batch Process Evaluation and Simulation and Problem Solving.
Chemistry

Chemistry

I have taught and currently teaching chemistry, other sciences, and math. My previous experience is with chemical engineering with supervising a chemical research laboratory and troubleshooting chemical production lines at Johnson & Johnson as a Team Leader Manager. I have been asked to return to J & J several times, and the budgets were some of the reasons with the salary I have been asking. I have taught AP and Honors Chemistry with other AP subjects. I sent a letter of intent to Harvard University for a doctorate level of education, and I received a reply in two days, and this is on hold because of the expense, and I want to be able to complete online, and this is renewable.
Differential Equations

Differential Equations

I have used Differential Equations with Electrical Engineering and in advanced coursework at Rice University in nineteen eighty - three with electrical circuit analysis that involved resistance, capacitance, and inductance. The relationship was e^(R/L)t that comes from originally the differential equation of L(di/dt) + Ri = sin(2t), and this is around current I, inductance coils, and R for the resistance, and there is (di/dt) + Ri/L = 1/L[sin(2t)], and there there is the integrating factor e^integral(R/L)t[Sin(2t)]dt set up. This is used in an electrical circuit of coils = L of inductance, I that is the current, R is the resistance, and C is also the capacitance with RLC circuits. The professional engineering certification exam has these kinds of problems. Last year I taught Calculus with Differential Equations using the following concepts: General and Particular Solutions, Separation of Variables with the Integrating Factor e^p(x)dx with first and second order equations. I used my old differential equations book from Illinois when I was teaching differential equations. A simple problem is: y" + y' = 0, and are: y = sin x, y = cos x, and y = cos x + sin x solutions of the given second order differential equation? Y" = second derivative, and y' is the first derivative, and do the derivative operators and see if this is zero. I have physically used differential equations when I was an engineer and supervisor for finding finite difference approximations for oil producing areas when I was in Texas in the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties. I have also used differential equations for electrical circuits and the power distributions I was involved with in the chemical process plants when I was in Texas.
Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

I have been a troubleshooter of electrical programmable controllers with automation in a chemical and mechanical production plant. I troubleshot electrical equipment that was related to power distribution with circuits and multi buses and accessories such as resistors, capacitors, coils, rectifiers, single and three phase transformers and motors, direct and alternating current, inductance, capacitance, and resistance, current dividers and electrical circuit designs. I taught related electrical courses that included Ohm's Law, Kirchholf's Law, Thevenin circuit analysis, parallel and series circuits with resistors, capacitors, and coils, power distribution with one, two, and three phase motors and transformers, sinusoidal waves, frequencies, periods, angular velocity, alternating and direct currents, wavelengths, writing programs for programmable controllers, impedances, admittance, reactance, active, reactive, apparent power, Wheatstone bridge, current divider, electromagnetism and fluxes. I supervise the testing of rebuilt and new electrical controls and systems in chemical and mechanical production plants.
GED

GED

I have taught Option 2 that is GED for more than ten years. I use the math strategies that are useful for for passing the exam.
Geometry

Geometry

I have taught Geometry with visual for more than ten years. There are several concepts in Geometry that are on the ACT/SAT Exams that have been included with what I teach.
Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

I was a troubleshooting hands-on mechanical/manufacturing engineer where I would be out on the floor where production was occurring, and I solved problems and kept production lines going. I wrote three computer programs in the previous years before Primavera and SAP was even thought of that involved Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and I set up systems of keeping track and follow up with current production. I was also ionolved with manufacturing processes, routings, tooling, design of systems with product designs, and manufacturing improvements. I have been a manufacturing manager where major decisions had to be made. I was on 24/7 where I was on call to solve immediate problems in the manufacturing plant. My teaching began teaching engineer review classes for the professional engineer certification in Houston, Texas, and this continued when I relocated back to Illinois in March 1986. I have three engineering degrees, six college degrees and two master's degrees and hours into a doctorate level. Manufacturing and Industrial Mechanical Engineering with Machining, Dies, and Plastic Injection Molding with Tooling and Production from the Manufacturing Certification Institute, Dearborn, Michigan Additional education was in Robotics with Computer Numerical Control (CNC) and Numerical Control There was a completed passing of an exam in 1981. I traveled to colleges and universities, and installed this course as part of the engineering curriculum. The course covered thirteen subjects with all math including differential equations, physics, chemistry, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, electrical engineering, mass and heat transfer, transport phenomena, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, computer programming, and CAD/engineering drawing and design.
Precalculus

Precalculus

I am currently teaching and tutoring precalculus at the high school and adult levels. I have tutored and taught precalculus at the high school and college level more than ten years. Many of the precalculus concepts such as the compound interest, I have used in the real - world such as mortgage rates and annuity IRA accounts.
SAT Math

SAT Math

I am currently teaching and tutoring SAT, ACT, GED, HISET, and PSSA test preparations. I have more than ten years teaching and tutoring SAT privately and with other tutoring companies. I tutor concepts with math expressions, word problems, with the following subjects: geometry, algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, probability and statistics.
Spanish

Spanish

I had four years of high school Spanish, and when I was evaluated in college, I was told that I needed one semester of college conversational Spanish that I made an "A" grade. I almost majored in Spanish or minored in it. I needed for my Bachelor's degree that is a BA. I used Spanish in the real-world as an engineer in the 1980's that had to travel to South America in Bruxeidos, Brazil to help set up the Ford Plant production facility and make sure the plant was running efficiently. I spent six months training, communicating, assisting, helping and living there. Today, I have been verbally communicating and writing in Spanish with one of my other jobs with parents and students more than six years.
Statistics

Statistics

I have taught AP Statistics in high school for more than seven years, and I taught Statistics and Probability in College for more than five years. I taught Statistical Process Control at the University as an engineering instructor more than three years. My math specialty in college teaching was Statistics and Probability of the Medical Sciences. I submitted a letter of intent to Harvard University for the doctorate level, and I received a reply in two days, and this is on hold because of the cost, and this is renewable.
Trigonometry

Trigonometry

I am currently teaching and tutoring math and all related subjects. I used trigonometry in the real world with my three engineering degrees with tool and die and manufacturing, construction technology in the framing and building homes like roofs with the truss supports with sloping angles and setting up supports. Trigonometry was used with advanced math courses in calculus, engineering subjects and sciences such as physics, etc. that I was required to take, and I have taught physics, too. I took a professional engineer certification exam in 1981, and passed it, and many trigonometry topics were on there such as components of forces with the appropriate angles had to be given where there was the sum of the x-components and the sum of the y-components, and there was a direction with the use of vectors where the Pythagorean theorem is used for the square root of the sum of the x-components squared plus the sum of the y-components squared. Additionally, I taught phase angles with angles with electrical engineering where there was cycles involved with trigonometry sinusoidal waves, etc. Advanced courses in engineering require three semesters of physics where there was electromagnetism that required the use of trigonometry.

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Really great tutor

Went above and beyond, and put in a lot of prep work even before our lesson! Probably the best and nicest tutor I’ve met on here

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AMAZING TUTOR!

Robert has been able to assist my daughter with grasping geometry concepts she was unable to grasp otherwise. I highly recommend Robert! His knowledge base is extremely broad across subject matters.

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