Background of
Mr. George R. Andrews

 

(Also known as Russ)

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:

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 his granddaughter 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)

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Military

Work

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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
Work

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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