Most parents look at their child's college education as a long- term investment.
But Fred and Debbie Paschke are getting an immediate payback from their son, John, a recent ECE graduate, who plans to attend law school at Harvard this fall. John Paschke, aware of his parents' problem, decided to solve it. In an electrical engineering course in which students choose their own assignments, he developed a less expensive color-match machine. The machine merely analyzes a paint's red, green and blue components instead of checking every frequency in the color spectrum, a far more complex procedure. The sample is placed below a small turntable that has three diodes attached to it.