Jimmy SmartJim Smart, PhD, PE, has been trained in various Buddhist practices in the traditions of Theravada, Mahayana, and Zen/Chan, and he has been a dedicated meditator for over thirty years. In addition to teaching college-level mindfulness classes, he has ttended numerous silent retreats. With a chemical engineering career spanning two decades, Jim worked for IBM and several other companies where he helped manufacture printed circuit cards for early personal computers. As a tenured university professor, Jim was an internationally recognized research scientist and speaker. He has published over twenty-five peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and has authored two engineering textbooks. Read More Read Less