On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, at 23:39:56 Jim K9YC wrote:
I AM an EE, but I also taught for five years (at DeVry in Chicago), and my goal has always been to try to make complicated things easier to understand.
I've worked in EMC since retiring from the Army in 1983 (was an avionics instructor there for 4 years myself), and been up and down the ladder in engineering positions (best paid was 5 years as R&D's EMC design engineer at Alacatel USA in Petaluma; most interesting a 2-turned-8-months contract in Washington working on AED's). This, despite never did taking any college engineering courses or getting a degree. Playing with electronics since I was a kid was a good start, and 21 years in comms and avionics in the Army encouraged troubleshooting skills and understanding. I still got an occasional contract (a couple earlier this year) since retiring at GE Aviation; experience teaches lessons most degree programs don't.
The HPJIE paid for some cool if ancient test equipment; directional couplers, scopes to monitor RF envelopes counters and SA's to look at the spectrum as needed (and be sure my local extended band AMBC station goes to nighttime power on schedule and their coax doesn't arc over again).
The questions might be on the test, but the ANSWERS are wild in the world, you know?
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