I graduated with a BscEE in 1961 having begun work in engineering in 1954. Mine was a combination of full and part-time academic load balanced with student jobs. As a farm kid from Seward, there was never serious consideration of any other school or interest in another discipline. At that time, electrical engineering at NU had only two options, Power and Communications, and I chose the latter course of study. I do, however, have fond memories of the old power lab at Ferguson Hall.
Engineering is the key to such a wide variety of vocations and avocations.
Television broadcasting was relatively new in the early 1960s. I referred to many of my engineering and elective undergraduate courses in working with surveyors, lawyers, tower builders, equipment manufacturers and politicians. In 1969, once the transmission system was in place, I left the State and worked for RCA, then the leading manufacturer of broadcast equipment. These include distance learning distributed by interactive satellite and fiber connections to many terminals around the state and country. Travel is high on our list of activities these days, having recently returned from a three-week tour of China.