TCRX #32 Dr. Howard Conyers

Howard Conyers is a Manning, SC native, specifically Paxville or Home Branch if you really know the area.  Google  Manning, to see the rural town he is from in South Carolina.  Howard did not know what engineering was officially until his 11th grade year.Howard was 1 of 32 students nationwide awarded the prestigious USDA/1890 scholar to study Bioenvironmental Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, a historically black college and university.  Howard graduated with perfect 4.0 GPA and earned the NAMASKAR award at A&T for his commitment to campus leadership, community service, and academic excellence.  He later earned his  MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University with a specialty in Aeroelasticity in 2009. Subscribe to The Chef Rock Xperiment Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher What ya’ don’t know… He’s just a humble kid from the south. Where he got his entrepreneurial spirit… The entrepreneurial spirit came from my family. My grandparents were both farmers in the south and to survive you were entrepreneurs. How he came to love barbecue… I was born into it. I was lucky enough to born into a community that really practiced this tradition of pit-cooked barbecue. On competition barbecue: I’m not a fan of competition barbecue, Rock. I love it as an engineer but as a traditionalist, as a black pit master in this country, I hate it. It doesn’t show the people who… were very much hands on in developing and perfecting American barbecue.