Dr. Charrier taught full-time at McGill University, Montreal for 30 years before taking early retirement in 2001. He now focuses on educational software development, while retaining some teaching duties at McGill. His first engineering degree is from E.N.S. Arts & Metiers in France and his M.Eng and Ph.D. are from the University of Akron. His teaching and research interests in the properties and processing of polymeric systems have encompassed plastics, elastomers, and composites. He has taught numerous seminars on a variety of subjects associated with polymeric materials. He is a past President of the Quebec Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He is the author of a comprehensive textbook on "Polymeric Materials and Processing,” and the developer of several educational software programs on polymeric materials as well as metallic materials. The textbook and the software are used in academic institutions as well as industrial environments.