Shawn E Burke

Dr. Shawn Burke holds degrees in mechanical engineering from Princeton University and MIT. He has spent over three decades paddling, teaching people how to canoe, downriver racing, and competing in flatwater marathons and ultramarathons. He is an inventor and patent holder of sensing technologies for quantifying sports performance. Shawn is the author of the Science of Paddling blog, which is read by paddlers from over 100 countries worldwide. When he's not paddling or writing he works as a consulting engineer.