My name is Jimmy Black, BS EE from Old
Dominion University, Class of 1980.
My name is David Wommack, I'm an ODU graduate, Class of 2000,
degree in electrical and computer engineering.
I'm Ellery Hollberg, 
Class of 2017 at ODU
I graduated with an ECE
Joseph Gander, Class of '83, BS EE.
Like learning how to do PCBs, learning how to
wire up boxes, make wire lists. Just doing
a little bit everything.
As a design
engineer we have to design circuit boards.
Basically, we can we can take
ideas, we capture them on physical
circuit boards, then we produce the boards.
We're electronics design and manufacturing.
We build a lot of
interfaces to navigation equipment radar
sonar, but we also do product development. 
Somebody has an idea they want to bring
something to the market, they come to us. 
If we think it's a good idea we'll buy
into it, we'll invest our own money, time
help them bring it to the market and
then we get paid back from the royalties
as they sell them.
Oh absolutely! Old Dominion established the foundation
that I needed to develop and design the
circuit boards and it also gave me lots
of opportunities for networking.
Between Old Dominion and the internship, I developed
you know, what I do today and what I've
been doing for over 20 years. The
interactions that Old Dominion, were just
absolutely necessary for building that
foundation.
The electrical engineering at ODU prepared me
for the skills I needed
to apply to my current job
We very much believe in the internship
program, where you can get somebody in
and really see who they are before
actually hiring them.
I recruit from ODU partly because I'm on
the Dean's Advisory Board and been connected
with the Research Foundation and I know
ODU has a good program. I'm very pleased with
all of our graduates from ODU. There's
pride in it for me that there will be
ODU alumni. I want the camaraderie
in-house of ODU
You know, it's my alma mater so, you know
there's a certain amount of school pride
there that that you know I want to be
involved and I want to you know kind of
teach those younger people, or at least
help foster the younger people try to
try to give them some of that knowledge
and those things I've learned it's a hey
don't do this, stick with it, keep going,
you can make it.
Getting involved in different organizations
and having things to just talk about and communicate
That, that will take you
a long way.
You learn, you pass, you learn how to learn, but it's
more important to enjoy your journey.
