Matthew Whiteacre is a senior lecturer at Texas A&M in the department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. His degrees are in nuclear engineering with a focus on radiation protection and statistics. Early in his career he spent time working at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Health, Safety, and Environment group. Since 1983 he has been instructing freshman engineering graphics at Texas A&M and was on the planning committee for the Foundation Coalition at Texas A&M. He is the graphics liaison to the College of Engineering Freshman Programs office. He has taught AutoCAD since 1984 (version 1.4). In addition to working with the freshman program he has taught classes using rendering, parametric solid modeling, customizing AutoCAD and rapid prototyping to upper classmen. He is current a member of the Texas A&M Faculty senate, serving as the chair of the engineering senators caucus and a faculty co-advisor to the Texas A&M CADD club, a student group focusing of aspects of computer aided design and its various applications.