Does “Color Science” even matter?

Hi,

IBM sponsored Technical Electronics courses in the community colleges and the high schools in Dutchess (East Fishkill and Poughkeepsie plants) and Ulster (Kingston) counties in New York State. And probably other places but I was in the Mid Hudson Valley and so took advantage of this in High School.

That saw me leave High School with an Associate Degree as if I had been to the Community College. It also got me in the IBM door working as a Technician. Once I was there for a few months, I was introduced to classes at RPI via video conference. This, as part of my workday and so, eventually, a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. I took six years to get there rather than four, but it was all paid for by IBM. Same happened over the next three years with a Master's Degree.

I don't think this happens with IBM and RPI any longer. It was still underway when IBM was into downsizing and I left for Ericsson in 1994. Ericsson had a different approach where folks took off from work for a semester as a time and went to school instead. At the rate of one semester per year.

What I liked about the IBM and RPI scheme was we used actual product R+D work by way of our lab work for school. And the job promotions came along automatically. So, not only on the company's dime, but more dimes in my pocket as well.

And then they show one the door and waste all that effort and money. You'd have thought they'd have kept their engineers that they had bothered to train their way....

By that time I was in North Carolina instead of New York.

In my case, I was stuffing radios into notebook PCs at that time. We used Ericsson GE for our vendor. I wandered out the IBM door on Friday and into Ericsson's door on Monday. On Tuesday, I was back in my lab at IBM, at my bench, doing what I had been doing on the previous Thursday. And it cost IBM three times what it cost them for my work when I was an employee.

Stan