Biography
After a short career in Architecture, Brent was hired at BYU in the Design Department in the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Brent’s charge was to help with new technologies and as such he taught classes in Interior Design, Photography, Industrial Design and Automotive Design. Since there was so much interest by students in the new emerging area of Computer Graphics, Brent created a class in that area, open to anyone. This was the early incubation of what became the interdisciplinary Animation Major. He was privileged to work with faculty in a few other departments to create that major.
Brent’s teaching career spanned nearly 40 years at BYU, including a few years as an adjunct professor while still working in Architecture. While at BYU, Brent was awarded several Teacher of the Year awards from his Departments, as well as the University “Alumni Professorship Award”. He was awarded the ”David Evans Endowed Professor of Computer Graphics” while working in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and retired as the Director of the Center for Animation while in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.