I recalled feeling goose bumps when I would drive across the country with my family and look up at the night sky and know that somewhere up there was a satellite containing equipment I designed for a classified defense project. That feeling is intoxicating--better than any high I can imagine--to know that something I did could touch the lives of so many people. I want the students who are involved with the programs to know that feeling. It doesn’t have to be something they engineered; it could just be an idea. But to know that they thought of something and followed through on it and it made a difference in the lives of people or the company they work for, that feeling is indescribable, and I want the students at CSUN to have an opportunity to experience it!
Ernie Schaeffer