MARCH 2001

Reader Poll:

Were You Born an Engineer? We Want to Know…

Ask engineers when or how they knew they would become engineers, and you usually get a pretty concrete answer:

• "My high school physics teacher encouraged me…"
  
  
• "My parents called it after I had disassembled the radio, my bicycle and my sister’s doll’s eyes…"
  
  
• "When I stuck that key in the wall outlet, I knew I would have to find out ‘why’…"

What’s your story? What turning-point event or who inspired you to become an engineer? Did you always know engineering was your destiny or did you just kind of stumble into it?

Would you encourage others to do the same? Why? How?

Please let us know! Send your story to todaysengineer@ieee.org. Be sure to include your name, residence city and state, and membership status.