BE '69
I was able to get into CCNY through starting at Staten Island Community College, which really helped from a financial point of view. I spent two years there. All of my credits transferred over because SICC was part of the CCNY system. I liked the friendships that I made at the City College of New York. I was in Chi Epsilon. It was a civil engineering honor society, so it was based on academic achievement and grade point average. I was also really impressed with the quality of most of the teachers. Professor Reitz was an interesting character. He was a good teacher and pretty fair. The structural engineering classes were subjects that I was quite interested in, and it was something that I wound up being involved in through my professional career. Back in 1969, CCNY was pretty highly recognized by quite a few companies on the East Coast. The college was a known entity, and prior to graduation, most of the large engineering firms were very much interested in interviewing potential graduates for positions. I've been involved in water resource projects that would include dams and reservoir design and construction. I've been involved in a lot of power generating facilities associated with water hydroelectric plants. I just retired from AECOM in September as a principal civil engineer. I spent about 36 years there. I think the skills that I learned at CCNY were the ability to research new things and apply continuing education to work. It's worked out pretty well. CCNY means a lot to me as it was the place where I was given all of the necessary tools to be successful.