 - Background
of
- Mr. George R.
Andrews
- (Also known as
Russ)
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Some General Comments
He is a very vigorous 66 years of age (2002). He
has earned BSE and MSEE degrees from Cal State LA, where he was
inducted into 3 scholastic honor societies.
He is retired. His careers, in sequence, have
been:
- Microwave Radio Technician in the
army.
- Electronics Technician in the Radio Research
Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Aerospace Engineer, designing logic and
computers, writing advanced software.
- Inventor / Small Business owner and
operator.
- Consulting Engineer and Designer.
- Teacher of computer literacy for nearly 3
years, 2 classes each of 5th, 6th, 7th, & 8th
grade.
He has always been deeply interested in
psychology, philosophy and education. He has taught in several
capacities since his teen years.
He loves children, and enjoys working and playing
with them.
In 1999 he was invited to teach Computer Literacy
at a Christian school where one of his granddaughters attended. He
was fully aware of the difficulties our school systems in general
were experiencing, some of which were clearly manifested in the
granddaughter's school. He wanted to see first hand, from the inside,
what was going on.
He brought to teaching a lifelong practiced
ability to analyze and think rationally (see Thinking
pages). He is a highly experienced observer of physical systems,
organizations, and of individuals. He loves to dig beneath the
surface to understand the fundamentals which are driving the
situation. In all of his teaching experiences, he has been able to
quickly and accurately diagnose student problems, and use corrective
mechanism which worked.
While he is not trained at a teacher's college,
his teaching was recognized as of very high quality, and produced
good results. In fact, coming into a teaching position without the
biases of a formal teaching education may well be a major
advantage. It seems to be! He can look at situations from a fresh
perspective, not biased by all the latest fads and fights within the
educational system.
He continues to read in the field of education,
and follows its progress closely.
- Some Biographical
Details
- (As of 31 May 2002)
- Personal
- (2002)
- Widowed Once
- Remarried (31 years,
)
- 3 children
- 5 granddaughters (10 -
20)
- Two granddaughters attends
Maranatha High School. One attends Pasadena Christian
School.
- Loves children. Relates
well.
- Loves teaching. A lifelong
interest.
- Eagle Scout plus 1
palm.
- Cancer survivor.
- Strong Christian
beliefs.
- Amateur Radio operator
(K6BMG)
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Teaching
- At age 18: Taught a class, "How to
pass the Amateur Radio Operator FCC License Exam." Morse
code, radio, electronic theory, and FCC regulations.
Long-term class.
- Tutoring at PCC and
CSULA
- ESL for 6 Korean college students
in Korea, and for an immigrant from
Mexico
- Classes on advanced software for
Aerospace Programmers
- Mentor for many young
engineers
- Substitute teacher, 4th grade home
room and K-8 computer classes, Pasadena Christian
School
- 6 week pilot computer literacy
class for 5th graders at granddaughter's
school
- Nearly 3 years teaching Computer
Literacy: 2 classes each, 5th through 8th
grades.
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Education
- 1968 BSE CSULA
- 1970 MSEE CSULA
- 3.65 GPA (out of
4.0)
- 3 honor societies
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Military
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Work
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General
- Aerospace Engineer: Electronic
Design, Computer Programmer (Retired)
- Inventor
- Consulting
Engineer
- Owned & operated a small
business (18 years)
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Misc.
- Broadcast Engineer at KPCC (2nd
class radio telephone license with radar
endorsement)
- Programming of
microprocessors
- Much Assembly language programming
of microprocessors that controlled
hardware
- Web Page design and
creation
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Military Related Work
- Lead engineer responsible for
developing Computer Automated Test Equipment to test the
flight control circuit cards for an ICBM interceptor
missile.
- Major contributor to the design of
a very large digital machine (3000 ICs) involved in
actually shooting down two dummy warhead
ICBMs.
- Programmed machine controllers
based on microprocessors, and using assembly
language
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Space Projects
- Interplanetary Radar. (Helped to
map Venus with earth-based radar and determine the size
of the solar system.)
- Wrote my thesis defining how my
school could build a radar station to "Bounce the
Moon"
- Ground Support Equipment (for
satellites)
- Deep-space communications. Maser
amplifiers (VERY Low-noise receivers) frequency
synthesizers, many other RF devices.
- Possible future involvement with a
Mars Rover.
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Radio Direction Finding
- An Expert in the field (visit his
Web site at: http://members.aol.com/bmgenginc)
- Invented and patented a Radio
Direction Finder (RDF)
- Manufactured and marketed his
invention
- RDF Consulting
- Has worked closely with LAPD and
FCC on RDF projects.
- Assisted JPL on two RDF
projects.
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Contract Engineering
- Entire design and board layout of
a specialized computer, sensors, and modem
system.
- Software design and
programming
- Teaching Software to UK RAF
programmers
- Special circuit design and
manufacture of a small board for an IRCM system (infrared
countermeasures) system
- Project to automatically track 100
wild animals wearing radio collars
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