Dr. Norman C. Grody

I chose CCNY because I wanted to stay in New York, I didn't want to go to any out-of-state schools, it was free at that time, and it was fantastic. I felt so great being there. I started as a non-matriculated student in electrical engineering in 1957. After two years, I got enough credits and became matriculated. I was then on the road to get my bachelor's. It was a five-year engineering program, and it took a lot of summer school courses. It was a great thing going to CCNY. I met a lot of friends there, and it was very rewarding. After completing my BEE, I attended NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, working towards my PhD. After receiving my PhD in electrophysics at NYU in 1972, I worked first at NASA and then at NOAA in the new field of microwave remote sensing of the earth from satellites. I retired from NOAA in 2005 and did some consulting. Presently I write articles on the construction, measurement, and analysis of microwave radiometers for remote sensing applications.