Kevin Braza

I am a PhD student in computational materials chemistry at UC Davis, with a background in chemistry (B.S., UC Santa Barbara), teaching credentials (LMU), an MBA (Quantic), and regulatory/compliance training (Harvard/HBS).

Before starting my PhD, I spent years teaching advanced math and science — at boarding schools, in competition prep (USNCO, IChO, IMO), and through independent tutoring. I have seen firsthand what happens when students are given the details without the structure. They work hard. They grind problems. And they still cannot explain how the pieces fit together.

I built this course to fix that. The goal is simple: give students a coherent conceptual map of chemical engineering before they spend years collecting fragments.

I am building this course while I learn the material at the graduate level. That is a feature, not a limitation. The content reflects someone actively working through the physics, not reciting it from distant memory. Every lesson is written by someone who recently struggled with the same ideas and figured out how to make them click.