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Teacher Appreciation Day 2022 – who inspired and taught you?

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As we grew to be engineers, makers and everything in between, we had teachers. They helped focus us, and guide us down a certain path. Today’s the day to celebrate them.

Share a story or two or three.

I’ll start:

Drowning in classes like “digital signal processing,” I felt disillusioned with electrical engineering. Undergrad can be a brutal place. I was about ready to give up.

I somehow ended up speaking with a professor, Mr. Laxpati. He was close to retirement age. His view was a sharp contrast to my beginning on a similar path in life. He shared some stories difficult times he had along the way. How the challenges changed his mindset made him a better engineer.

Professor Laxpati reminded me of why I started engineering, what my goal was, and talked about how to “engineer a career.” I definitely had a clearer mindset after our talk. I stuck with engineering. I chose Professor Laxpati to be my senior design project mentor, of course. I got 2nd place in robotics at the senior design expo. I graduated.

He retired soon after. Well deserved.

He also inspired me to be a college professor. Hoping to help some other students along their journey too. I taught math to undergrads are a community college. WOW, being a teacher is tough work. Little did I know the work professor Laxpati had to do on top of his engineering work. Definitely, someone I aspire to match in life.

 

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  • In my freshman year of High School, I signed up for electronics as one of my electives (I had already built several radio shack kits and was fascinated with electronics) .  The instructor, Mr. Wilson, was an excellent electronics teacher. He taught us the basics of electronics and encouraged us to find circuits and build them as a part of the class.  We learned how read schematics, to fabricate circuit boards, and even helped us to debug our builds.  Mr. Wilson also led a student run FM radio station that was located on the campus.  After the electronics class I signed up for the Radio Station class, which was a real eye opener.  The students were allowed to focus on various aspects of running a radio station, including a tech crew that maintained and built broadcast radio electrons.  Over the next two years (as I graduated as a Junior due to all the extra credit classes I took in radio, before and after school), I worked on several projects, like restoring/updating a 10KW FM transmitter, building and tuning an antenna system, building a stereo mixing console along many other projects.

    When I graduated and moved onto college, about 80% of my freshmen year (of my three year BS degree) was a review of things that I had already learned in High School. I always knew I wanted to work in electronics and Mr. Wilson made this seem very possible and also very exciting.  I still communicate with Mr. Wilson to this day.

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  • In my freshman year of High School, I signed up for electronics as one of my electives (I had already built several radio shack kits and was fascinated with electronics) .  The instructor, Mr. Wilson, was an excellent electronics teacher. He taught us the basics of electronics and encouraged us to find circuits and build them as a part of the class.  We learned how read schematics, to fabricate circuit boards, and even helped us to debug our builds.  Mr. Wilson also led a student run FM radio station that was located on the campus.  After the electronics class I signed up for the Radio Station class, which was a real eye opener.  The students were allowed to focus on various aspects of running a radio station, including a tech crew that maintained and built broadcast radio electrons.  Over the next two years (as I graduated as a Junior due to all the extra credit classes I took in radio, before and after school), I worked on several projects, like restoring/updating a 10KW FM transmitter, building and tuning an antenna system, building a stereo mixing console along many other projects.

    When I graduated and moved onto college, about 80% of my freshmen year (of my three year BS degree) was a review of things that I had already learned in High School. I always knew I wanted to work in electronics and Mr. Wilson made this seem very possible and also very exciting.  I still communicate with Mr. Wilson to this day.

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