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Prof Jim Greer
What first stirred your interest in a career in engineering?
I grew up just a few miles from Texas Instruments, where the first integrated circuit was invented. My parents didn’t work there, but a lot of kids in the neighbourhood had moms or dads who did. So, earning a living as a technician or engineer was something commonplace.
As a youth, I was interested in music and the idea of understanding what was behind music production appealed to me, and I thought it would be fun to understand how amplifiers and sound systems worked. So when I went to university I was drawn to electrical engineering.