BE '64
I attended the City College of New York because of its reputation as one of the finest engineering schools in the country. I was active at CCNY as the editor of Tech News, the School of Engineering newspaper. In that capacity I was able to experience a lot of different features of the college, people, faculty, programs, and events, and truly appreciated what CCNY means for its students and for the community. My girlfriend of five years at the time also attended CCNY, and we've been married for 54 years now. After graduating, I worked in the aerospace industry for several years and went on to get a master's at NYU. I then worked as a clinical engineer in several area hospitals. At the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, I was instrumental in the development of the first-ever formal preventive maintenance program for medical instrumentation. As the director of clinical engineering at the Staten Island University Hospital, I established their first in-house clinical engineering program. I eventually become the assistant chief of engineering at the New York Veteran's Administration Hospital. I became a certified clinical engineer, was an adjunct lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at the Staten Island Community College, and had several papers published in the clinical engineering literature, including a chapter in the 'CRC Handbook of Clinical Engineering,' which was published in 1980. I would never have been able to do any of this without what I learned at CCNY. CCNY was the gateway to my career and to my accomplishments in a new and exciting field of engineering.