Taiwanese Diaspora Podcast

(Episode is in Chinese. 這集用國語聊。)  We talk with Dr. Peng (彭博士) today about his career as a nuclear engineer (核能工程師). A native of Taiwan, he completed his elementary through Master’s studies in Taiwan, and considers himself really lucky throughout his education endeavors to have had really great teachers who recognized his strengths and encouraged him to pursue his dreams. He then came to update New York for his PhD in nuclear engineering, because there weren’t programs offered in Taiwan at the time. He ended up raising his family in the US and having a career that took him to commercial power plants in several states around the US: Louisiana (路易斯安那州) to Michigan (密歇根州) to Illinois (伊利諾伊州) to Delaware (特拉華州) to Maryland (馬里蘭州).  On the personal front, he shares about how his family plugged into the Taiwanese communities everywhere they lived, so that his kids would have the opportunity to learn about their heritage. I personally like his philosophy about passing on cultural heritage: it’s up to the pa