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 Recognizing
“Best” Engineers: Eric Bogatin
The
person who nominated Eric Bogatin said, “Eric is honest and is eager to
share his knowledge with all engineers. He continually keeps himself
up-to-date and is a true ‘Renaissance Man,’ even writing science
fiction.”
Name: Eric
Bogatin
Location:
Olathe, Kansas, U.S.
Current position:
Signal Integrity
Evangelist
Industry positions:
Chief technology officer at IDI, Xinix, GigaTest Labs
Industry affiliations or organizations:
IEEE, APS (American Physical Society)
Accomplishments
you’re proud of:
When someone comes back to me and tells me they got an “Ah ha!” moment
from something they heard from me, or read in my books or articles. I
often have engineers come back and tell me that they struggled to
understand some signal integrity concept for years, and read all the
other books and heard all the other experts, but when they read my book
or heard my talk, it suddenly became clear for them.
I get a thrill reading
the reviews on
Amazon.com of my first textbook, Signal Integrity Simplified. I
feel I had an important impact in helping these engineers advance their
careers.
First job: Member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs in
Princeton, N.J., U.S.
Favorite website:
www.beTheSignal.com
The last book I read:
Physics for Future
Presidents
by Richard Muller
If I knew then what I know now, I would have:
Chosen my early jobs based on the mentor I would have had a chance to
work with.
The best advice anyone ever gave me was:
“It’s usually so easy to find things that are wrong about an idea. Spend
the extra effort to first focus on what’s right about an idea.” This
advice was given to me by Paul Sherlock, who taught me most of what I
know about marketing.
What trend in the industry is affecting your job and what would you like
to do about it?
Large system
companies used to invest in their engineers, supporting their
professional growth, technical training, and exposure to new
technologies. Now, fewer and fewer companies are willing to provide this
level of support, yet still expect their engineers to stay current in a
field that is accelerating.
It is too bad that when a company values its assets, it only looks at
the cash equivalent of capital equipment and inventory, instead of
looking at their engineers as an even more important asset, worth
investing in.
I hope there will be a cultural shift back to valuing core competency in
design and technology development. Executive management must recognize
that corporate knowledge is often stored in the engineers who have
brought their company up the learning curve.
Other comments:
While I was writing my first signal integrity textbook, I was also
writing a draft of a science fiction novel. The novel draft got terrible
reviews from my friends, but I did not feel all my fiction writing was
wasted when one of the reviewers of my textbook said it read like a
novel.
My hobby is fishing by day and astrophotography by night, which gives me
an excuse to be outside and enjoy wonderful scenery.
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