Bill Wheeler:  

College Done a few late nighters doing homework after attending night classes at Indiana Vocational Technical College. After getting my A.S. degree, I also continued my education with a class or two at I.U.P.U.I. as well as receiving specialized training in areas such as automation, vision, robotics. Workplace Moving from a cube to an office? Are they kidding? What a backwards concept! That's old logic talking. I use to have a office and traded it for a cube in the 'cube farm' back in the '90s. Most of engineering at Valeo Sylvania works out in an open atmosphere with low cubical walls. Sometimes the noise from other people is unbearable! My office is 200' by 400' with enough space for 100 other engineers with space left over. I think I've done alright for myself since the early days of my youth cleaning 'Hulda's Cafe' on weekends. I've been here 31 years already and I guess I'll be here for life. I've seen greener pastures on the other side of the retirement fence, but I just haven't been able to escape to it yet. Engineering life has been good to me here. I've recently hung up my electrical engineering hat for one in optics and now I spend my days playing with (testing) lights of all sorts. I have a dark room, a laboratory, a garage, and two other rooms where I spend most of my time, so I don't see much 'cube' time anymore. I often wonder if I made a mistake by not following my father's footsteps in law enforcement and I wonder how my life would have been different today...ummmm....something I guess I'll never know. I know that I love helping others and it's helped me earn the respect of many fellow associates and I know that's a good thing. Life is never boring here. It's amazing to think about some of things we have to do here to prevent people from putting something together wrong. How would peopl...Expand for more