I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.
I'm an engineer by training.
I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.
I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.
While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
I didn't want to be an electrical engineer. But I did want to go to college. And they said they'd help me pay for it if I'd major in electrical engineering.
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is a very good profession. And so I did it, although it wasn't really my passion. Then I went to work at Texas Instruments.
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.
I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.
I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.
I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.
