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J—J— mL Campus to Corporation: An Engineer s First Year By Henry W. Kaiser Lehigh University, '.56 JTor THE first two years of college I looked forward only to graduation. Call it immaturity or lack of fore- sight, but I never bothered to concern myself with any- thing other than getting out of school with an electrical engineering degree. As time went on, however, I began to realize that there were many more problems con- cerning my future than I had allowed myself to believe. It was during my third year that I really started to con- sider these other aspects. What phase of communica- tions did I want to work in? What would industry expect of me? What could I expect of industry in return? Frankly, I hadn't the slightest idea. Some of these questions were answered during job interviews in my senior year, but on the whole I was still uncertain. I figured that the only way I could get satisfactory answers and at the same time decide on the type of work for which I was best suited was to join a company that offered some type of training program. It was with this almost experimental attitude that I accepted an offer from RCA to become a Design and Development Specialized Trainee in February 1956, after my mid-term graduation from Lehigh University. Essentially, the Design and Development Specialized Training Program at RCA is divided into two parts. The first part consists of a one-week orientation and four five-week rotated assignments within the company. The second part is a thirty-one week semi-permanent assignment. ''More Than in Four Years of College" My first assignment was with the Aviation Com- munication and Navigation section in Camden, New Jersey. At that time, the group was concerned primarily with a data processing system. My area of work was centered around a time-measuring device to be used as an integral part of the equipment. Needless to say, on my first contact with my project I was completely "snowed". I didn't know the first thing about digital The author calibrating equipment as part of tests on a major precision tracking radar system for missiles. computers, and frankly I hadn't even heard of most of the circuits involved. It wasn't long before I realized that I was going to have to get some help quickly but where? Well, the primary source of information turned out to be right in the section. Through technical discussions with my supervisor and "bull" sessions with some of the engineers, I was able to pick up enough in- formation to start my project. I learned not only in the office but also, perhaps more important, in the lab. I soon began to feel as if I had picked up more during the first few weeks on the training program than I had in four years of college. April 1957 25