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What Made You Become an EE? Join the Conversation

Posted February 19, 2010 8:59 AM

From EETimes:

Some kids in Tennessee made sandwiches. A middle school from North Carolina won the Future City Competition, for designing affordable housing for those in need. President Barack Obama spoke with some astronauts. Companies and organizations doled out thousands of dollars in scholarships to kids. And hundreds (if not thousands) of working engineers took time out from their day jobs to go into classrooms and try to get people interested in math, science and engineering. All of these things happened this week as part of National Engineers Week, designed to celebrate engineering and reach future generations of engineering talent.

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02/21/2010 2:32 PM

What made me become an EE? That's easy: The Devil made me do it.

He'd have made me a politician, but my conscience got in the way.

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02/22/2010 10:06 AM

Heathkit, Radio Shack, and fixing old electronics pulled from the dump.

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02/22/2010 6:14 PM

What made me become a EE? For me it was simple - the old 1960's series Batman!

It also made me gay, but that's a different story.

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