Electrical engineering

And so I want to see if you could speak to that.

And that is, if I understand correctly, you spent a few years pursuing an EE at Georgia Tech, but maybe I don't know for sure, but maybe you didn't finish that you just kind of had enough and then went on or did you finish?

I didn't finish a double E degree.

I thought when I went to tech, you know, they would, I had been a ham for many years before that, which was a big disadvantage.

And he says, you're going to fail this course.

Because I'm going to teach you.

what we teach in EE usually doesn't have anything to do with the real world or anything that you're familiar with.

And he was absolutely right.

It's about one of the most detailed accounts by an engineer in Latin American UFO literature.

Enrique Castillo Rincon was born in Colombia and worked as a professional electrical engineer across Colombia and Venezuela during the early 1970s.

His professional background placed him in a community of technically trained people whose working lives depended on precision and his credibility rested on accuracy.

He was not someone for whom vagueness or imprecision was professionally acceptable.

The framework of their message was consistent with the broader pattern of Pleiadian contact communications reported across this period by multiple independent witnesses in different countries.

But the technical context in which Enrique received and processed that communication was distinctive.

an electrical engineer from Colombia sitting aboard a craft beyond Earth's orbit, looking back at his own planet, receiving information through a framework of understanding that his professional life had built, and that experience itself was now stretching far beyond its original limits.

Enrique then returned to Earth with a fundamentally restructured understanding of engineering.

It's actually one of the reasons I really enjoyed electrical engineering.

We got down to the chemistry and built up from there.

Our computer engineering undergrad was a third EE, a third comp sci, and a third that was computer engineering specifically.

So we had transistor classes and plenty of EE classes with Maxwell's laws and magnetic fields traveling around a wire and a bunch of classes I didn't do so well in that

domain.

Yeah.

I don't know about every school across the nation, but I know primarily speaking, power engineering is not taught in colleges.

So there's actually far less exposure to this side of the industry, which as a colleague puts it, is like the original electrical engineering is power side.

And yet, we've kind of fallen by the wayside and we're having to go to career fairs and we don't have any trouble bringing in interns.

Our intern program, which we actually have a very structured intern program, has been very successful in the time that I've been with HED and we've actually recruited the majority of the interns that we had over into full-time employees.

That message became a fully remote senior financial analyst job, and Vivek wasn't even a finance guy.

He was an electrical engineer.

Debugging hardware in the lab, in a lab with no windows.

So now he has a new career, new industry, and no pay cut whatsoever.

Sometimes you have to create that opportunity for luck to happen.

Let's get into it.

Vivek, you were able to go from being an electrical engineer to a senior financial analyst, a jump that seems kind of wacky because engineers don't really do finance.

And now you're a senior financial analyst in the data world.

He logged approximately 2,000 hours of flight time on 83 aircraft types.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University in Sacramento.

And he is with us for the two hours on the Dr. Sky Experience.

William B. Scott, thank you for joining the Dr. Sky Experience.

Well, I'd just gotten trained to do that.

and did a few real-world flights when the Air Force said, hey, with your electronics background, we are really hurting for electrical engineers.

So they sent me back to school full-time, two and a half years, roughly, at Sacramento State, California there, and got an electrical engineering degree, went to officer training school, and picked up a brown bar as a second lieutenant.

Then they sent me off to National Security Agency And I was working space communication security stuff there.