I am a Senior Electrical Engineer for a company which makes equipment for coal fired power plants. I've been involved with industrial controls systems for the last 16 years.

Industrial control systems have changed quite a bit over the last 16 years from relay logic, PLC logic, and now computer controlled systems.

In my college days industrial controls was not a topic, we learned about transisitors and op-amps (I'm not old enough to have covered vacuum tubes). My transition from college to the working world has proven to be quite interesting, I learned ladder logic in less then 4 hours.

The changing technology makes my job interesting as well gives me the oppurtionity to travel world wide.

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Ray
1998 Mercedes E320, 200K Miles
2001 Acura 3.2TL, 178K Miles
1992 Chevy Astro, 205K Miles