Since he makes a living from destroying things, he is the second most likely professor to teach PHY 199 (CourseCatalogue).
His research definitely does not involve blowing up bridges. It is instead about short-duration high-impact forces on bridges. These are totally different.
Quotes:
In an email: "Module 1 does not an experimentalist make, so onto Module 2 you go."
"How do you go from rpm to Hz? You stick your finger in the fan hahaha"
"You can fall asleep here if you want. I won't know and frankly, it's happened before."
"We can model the model..."
"The problem with this approach is that you can't always get a big hammer and hit the thing."
"You guys are dead! Wake up! I'm going to get Cha down here to talk about jobbies."
"FOLLOW ME TO THE LAND OF X-STATIC!!"
"It's a velocimeter, not a velociraptor."
"I'm just kidding. If you ever call them infinitos..."
"Let's imagine I have a big mechanical vibrator..."