Engineer

Even after Don finished his B.A., his employer wouldn't promote him to the position of engineer. After all, he hadn't actually majored in engineering. In fact, he hadn't even taken any classes in engineering. He completed his degree with a do-it-yourself major called a General Major, with emphasis in Physics, Math, and Psychology. I later completed my B.A. with a similar major, which was then called Liberal Studies, in my case with emphasis in French, English, and History. Much later, our oldest son graduated with a major in Liberal Studies, with emphasis in Political Science, English, and History.

Anyway, Don still wanted to be an engineer, so he started looking for a different job. Then he found one where he would be an engineer, make more money, and it was much closer to our home.

This company did not manufacture computers. Instead, it manufactured electrical test equipment. Don went to work there, and applied integrated circuits to his design. He designed the world's first digital voltmeter. That means that instead of a dial with a needle pointing to the voltage of a circuit being tested, it had a numeric display.

After the digital voltmeter, Don designed the world's first digital ammeter, ohmmeter, and multimeter, which combined the three functions in one instrument.