An Engineering Career Begins with Childhood Inspiration

What are the little things in life that sets us on a course that ends up being a lifelong career? As a child growing up in the 1950s, I had no clue about what I would ultimately do in life. The fateful event of inheriting my older cousin's electric train set (that was a big thing in those days for young boys) in 1959 when I was five years old began a sequence of events that led to my becoming an electrical engineer.