About the author
The author has studied electrical (power) engineering in Armenia, a small country in the Caucasus with 3,000 years of history. Upon graduation from academic courses in 1952, he served in various responsible positions in designing, engineering, construction, and managing maintenance and operation of a power network system. He also served in the neighboring Republic of Georgia.
He moved to the United States in 1971 and was employed by many states on the East coast of the US - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, and Massachusetts. In 1980s he was invited to join as a lead project engineer for Saudi Consolidated Electric Company in Saudi Arabie followed by French Corporation SERET as supervising engineering manager for electrification of Al Jawf region of S.Arabia.
Although the author retired in 2008, he never actually "retired", for he kept working to complete the engineering dictionary he had on his desk for the preceding years. He completed in the year of 2006 - a multivolume engineering dictionary dedicated to electric power generation, transmission, and distribution.
In his Memoires, the author recounts with pleasure and pride many engineering and design problems "unsolvable" to others for years which he would solve within a few weeks.
He cherishes memories of his college professors who repeatedly warned their students never ever to think that upon graduation they become an "engineer" for, engineering is life long struggle of learning, studying, and practicing never to conquer a tiny portion of it. Engineering colleges can prepare students only for the lifelong struggle to become an engineer.
The author alarmingly notes that among thousands of engineering students in US colleges Americans are a tiny minority. This obviusly is explained the author says by low, or rather by no status engineering is meant to enjoy in the United States.