grew up in the automation industry. My dad was an engineer, which meant working long hours on designs, and a lot of travel lasting weeks at a time to places like Hayward, Wis.; Houlton, Maine; Dierks, Ark.; and Las Vegas, N.M.-not Nevada. For many people, those realities keep them away from the profession, but it was quite the opposite for me. I was drawn into the complexity of the systems my father was designing; the variety of things he was helping his clients make-not to mention the idea of making big things move, and making those big things move fast. I followed directly in his footsteps, earned my engineering degree, got a job at a system integration firm, and started traveling to places like Spring City, Tenn.; Millport, Ala.; and Arcata, Calif.
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