Love and a passion for nuclear engineering brought Dr. Karl Stahlkopf to Hawaii, around the world and back again.

As an undergraduate in college, Stahlkopf followed in the footsteps of his brother, studying electrical engineering not because it was his passion, but because he couldn’t think of anything better to do. After school, however, he went to work for the Navy on nuclear submarines and found that this was his true calling.

During his time in the Navy, Stahlkopf was stationed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Kamehameha. One week before a three-month deployment, he met the woman who would later become his wife. He asked her to marry him just two weeks after he returned home from sea. They’ve now been married more than 40 years.