Your Life's Inspiration

Hi DCad, good question, I've had a few people who have been mentors (but probably didn't know it) when I started out in Electronics. No one turning point as I feel there has always been the same inner child peering out from behind my eyelids with a sense of awe and curiosity. (And I like it that way)
The great enginneering feats and stories have always inspired. The lone engineer fighting againt beurocracy... Barnes Wallis, Frank Wittle. The great feats of the ancients, the pyramids etc.

Del

An uncle who was an electrical engineer - I adored him and he used to loan me his college texts.

When it came time for college I was 28, married and father of two and full time Navy man, couldn't get to an engineering program.

Ended up in Mathematics - was taught by two distinctly different generations

Calculus and DiffyQ - old school Northrup Grumman engineer who used DiffyQ daily, carried a briefcase, wore a tie. Calculus - German engineer who was yanked out of school to work Peenemunde rocket program, then *relocated* by the Americans. Worked in the desert with Werner Von Braun, starched white short sleeve shirt, suspenders, butch haircut, never lost his accent and you will turn out beautiful proofs.

Advanced Algebra - Delorean driving Mr. Cool of the Feineman inspired generation. Distinctly Californian, hair slightly too long, colorful, Abstract number systems was spent with our feet on the desks staring at the ceiling creating number systems and testing them for consistency.

But because I knew aircraft systems I went into Customer Support for a huge avionics manufacturer. All been downhill from there!

I was inspired by Professor of Psychology Mr.Phadke who was faculty at Banking Institute in Mumbai. He taught us how to remain cool under any circumstance, even when something drastic happens to you.

This thinking helped me and my colleagues a lot in our carrier.

Alexander Dumas

Hello Ibn,

May I ask, Jr. or Sr., and for what reason?

Kind regards ...

Because of the Many Inspiring novel written . Three Musketeers , Counte of Monte Cristo Etc and becasue his own personal larger than fiction life . I have always said one of the quickest routes to have ended racism in the US was to just place the statement behind the Three Musketeers Movie after every time it has been displayed on film , I think about 8 times now. " Written by a Blackman "

Hellow DCad,

All beings excepting mankind goes on with life ,it comes and goes.As thinking animals ,we have so many sentiments and conceptualizations..Well the whats shaping one's destiny could be -hopes of life tomorrow,a plan for tomorrow,a zeal to reciprocate and contribure to society's goodwill,a sense of seeking acceptibilty and returns,responses from society,attitude to do better, a sense towards perfection and betterment,a sense to acceptance of others,learning lessons from failures,adversities,unbiased attitude , being geniune in conceiving right and wrong and be truthful,curiosity and innovative attitudes.The mentor whoms could be, mam and dad,family and relatives,well wishers,friends,colleagues,elders,teachers,gurus,inspiring past and present personalities even the irritating competitor-every ones in one's walk of life could potentially contribute to our attitudes and ment us.The ultimate drive is from a justified consious self which is everlasting.

S.Udhayamarthandan

I worked at a large Government owned facility that had an amazingly broad array of equipment. SEM, mechanical testing lab, centrifuge, helium leak detection, laser interferometer, robotics lab ,chemical analysis ,auger, high speed photo analysis and others.

It was good exposure to a range of things.

In general terms: All those people I have read about, and met, who are insatiably curious about "what makes the damn thing tick?".

Specifically: My father, who died last week. He was an EE who worked in the hydraulics industry for ~50 years. He understood that curiosity when it was my turn growing up to start asking that question. There is no telling how many electrical motors I lost the brushes to, trying to answer that question. But the greatest patience was when I took his (working at the time) watch apart to answer that exact question.

Hi KW,

First, condolences to you and those close to you at the passing of your father (I know you're very tired of hearing that). My mother passed on January 3 this year, and she, too, was a major part of my own curiosity nurturing. Not because she was technical, but, in her I found that there were no 'stupid' questions. There were times when we sat up all night just talking about anything and everything.

Oh, and about your father's watch Hmmm ... I once set the roof of our house on fire, launching a model rocket from just outside my bedroom window at night ... well, just because. May we all show the patience to others we have been shown.

Kind regards ...

Oh, yeah. I forgot one: An event, a job to be precise. The first day I started working for a copper mine, they shoved a half assembled Heathkit Robot (HERO) at me and said finish it, and make it do something.

That began my career in industrial programming.

That just rocks! (mine - rocks?)

Seriously what a great way to start.