Francis E. Mensah is currently Interim Chair of the Department of Natural Sciences and Associate Professor of Physics at Virginia Union University. He is also the Coordinator for the Physics and Engineering program. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Lidar and Remote Sensing from Howard University and a D.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin. Dr. Mensah has been Lecturer in Physics and in Mathematics at Howard University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and in the Department of Mathematics. He was also Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington DC. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the National Society of Black Physicists. In 2018, Dr Mensah received the Scott & Stringfellow Outstanding Professor Award from Virginia Union University. Dr Mensah’s passion is teaching, which he loved from an early age. He has used various techniques to teach, including Project-Based Learning (PBL), a project currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).