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Destin's First University Lecture (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-26 23:28:51
Imported:
2026-06

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Thank you so much for supporting me on Patreon.

It really really makes a difference... for example, you're helping me pursue the PhD, which is AMAZING. It's actually quite difficult and a bit hard to balance making Smarter Every Day, the pursuit of the degree...and try to be a good father and husband. The prioritization matrix in my head is relatively simple, with family being first.... then SED and PhD mixed in somehow.

I don't talk much about how hard I'm working on all this stuff behind the scenes, but here's a peak behind the curtain if you're interested. I thought you might like to see the first college class I ever taught. The topic is something called "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics." I'm sure there are some of you that will have feedback on my teaching style, so I'd love to hear it. 2 hours is quite a long time to lecture, so it's not as punch as a normal YouTube video which has the power of the edit. My suggestion is to fast forward to the end to see the results of the simulations. It's an unlisted video which I made for the students... but it didn't end up being sent to them, so I thought you might be curious to see it!

Thanks again!

Destin

Files

Destin's First Lecture 07-23-25

Using Ansys LS-Dyna to create a Taylor Impact Test SPH model

Comments

Kevin Thomas

I think you need to give a TedX talk (on any number of topics). Now my head hurts.

Remy M

good luck destin and thank you for the ball and the stickers

David Tanner

Love it. I would love to sit down and have a class with Destin. Heck even sitting down and BSing. Destin, I would love to have you come out to a pyrotechnic event called winterblast in lake Havasu Arizona sometime. It's a cool event with a lot of guys that are really into pyro and have a lot of fun making art with it. If your ever interested shoot me a message.

Phil

I teach middle school lol. After 2 hours my students would be clawing the walls!

AC

Can’t wait to watch all of this! While also probably frequently pausing to look up some new terminology. Just out of curiosity, how far along are you in getting your PhD?

George Reese

War eagle Destin. You should come to do a lecture at Auburn

Jason Pack

You forgot a to mention a part of the priority matrix. If you get that one right, the rest falls into place. First is your personal relationship with God. Second is your wife and kids followed by rest of family. After that you are working on figuring out just like the rest of us. Keep up the great work.

Moe

I've got a dumb question. Is it possible to model uncertainty into the simulation? I know in controls engineering, you can model uncertainty or noise using a normal distribution, can you do the same for SPH for things like temperature fluctuations, environment noise, turbulence etc?

Steve Jones

Wow.. Awesome.. I was waiting at the end for you to say "dont forget to like and subscribe! " :-)

Austin Burnham

I think the simulations start around 1:20:00.

Aqueuse

Better than a new episode, a private session with you as an expert showing your work ! Great !

Aqueuse

hahaha :D

MARK ROWLAND

Hey Destin, cant hear the presentation audio? Can hear you not the overhead audio. Any work around?

Fred S

Compulsive proofreader here. “ but here's a peak” should be “but here's a peek“ Will watch later. Looking forward to it.

Gregory Laborde

Interesting stuff. I really do not know much about FEM (other than to direct some minion to perform one and get back to me with the results), so this was enlightening on a higher level. I noticed that a lot of the off-camera discussions were laced with laughter. I think the students were having a good time. In case you did not know already, I think that means you are a good teacher.

Steve Kurt

When I graduated with my BSEE, I went to work designing avionics and then started taking night classes for my MSEE. I've been very impressed by your work to get your PhD while working and creating SMED videos. That's a ton of work! Keep up the incredible work!!

Steven Schmidt

sed is actually a really useful UNIX/Linux command line tool. haha.

Gregory Williams

Getting to watch this after listening to this being discussed with Matt on NDQ, its exacatly what I expected. I know nothing of this topic, but i still feel like I can walk away from this with some understanding. Fantastic job dude!

Pat Hauslein

Hey Destin, so how do YOU think the first lecture went?

Pat Hauslein

I humble offer these suggestions as a retired Science Education professor with a focus on Higher Ed 1. Give them a break after 45 min 2. Do not have so many windows show on the screen. Some students may not be able to focus. 3. At least 2x through your lecture have the students work in pairs on a problem. A 2 min paired discussion even helps keeps things interesting. I would have done a 15 min exercise in there somewhere. I used to teach 75 min and 2 hr classes so I may have more tips if you need them. Last thing, remember you do not have ONE class of 20/100/200 students but 20/100/200 STUDENTS in one class. Best wishes.

Eric Lund

I like your teaching style. You make the class into a collaboration, make sure that everyone gets a chance to keep up, keep it light so people stay engaged, and show them cool stuff. Your enthusiasm for the material feels infectious from where I am standing, but, at the same time you don't leap ahead to the answers, you take the class step by step through the problem. Anyone in that class who did not come out of it excited about what they learned should re-consider why they are pursuing this field of study. You do a fantastic job of modeling what it looks like to really care about what you are doing. Teachers who do what you do the way you do it are rare in my experience, but they are the ones who teach their students lessons that last a lifetime. Nice job.

Joe A Powell

I finally got my Patreon account to forward your postings to my new email address. . .

Joe A Powell

Doing anything through my Google account insures their BOTs are reading over all my views with AI!

Nigicser Péter

Thank you for uploading your lecture. I enjoyed it a lot, also learned a lot! :)

john luff

Extremely cool indeed! Just a side note, Dr. John Swanson, who invented ANSYS, is a personal friend. next time I see him I'll mention your excitement and use of his 'baby'. john

Speedy Salsar5

Well done Destin, I used to teach Police Officers how to work various computer systems and I thought that was hard. The prep for this session must have taken you months and it looks as if it all worked out which is so hard to do. I remember teaching a class of 6 student on this systems first ever course and finding out that the system only allowed one update at a time. I had to change the way I taught the whole 2 day course in the first 1/2 hour. Believe me that taught me a valuable lesson in what can go wrong and how to keep going forward. I love what you do with smarter every day but would gladly trade smarter video's for the more important things in your life. All the best to your great family and good luck for the future in whatever you decide what to do.

Jeremy J.

Congratulation on your first class Destin! I agree, John Swanson would be proud! Ansys was my first "3D Digital Twin" tool and I spent the first part of my career building simulations for the virtual qualification of the X-band radios on the Cassini spacecraft, eventually moving on to explicit simulation in Abaqus and LS-Dyna. The democratization of digital first methods is a key component of the next industrial revolution. Thank you for making an impact on the next generation of young minds!

Dave Muth

Cool! Thanks for this video, Destin!