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i was ready
and uh...
said okay now i'm ready to go into something else
dr cook
i know you made a lot of connections with industry in in your career but one
that i think maybe is very
interesting for UMBC
is your relationship
with RWD technologies could you tell our viewers a little bit about that
how it got started
how it developed
well you know we had these networking lunches
where we invited
people from the industry
to come and just get acquainted
and uh...
RW- bob deutsch
showed up
and was part of this
this networking process
and at the time he was located in columbia
RWD stands for RW deutsch
bob deutsch
he owns the company
and um
he actually
allowed us to send him interns to work with him at the company
and these interns became employees
and so
what we have
is rwd is right here in our research department
and this is a case where
uh... we're meeting each other
there's been a really
good partnership between
uh... academia
and industry
i think its really unique to hear rwd - bob deutsch
was one of the first persons to to set up and move into the research for
and uh...
he ended up having other companies come in
but he became - he was a friend
recently i guess maybe
a year or two ago i had not seen bob in ten years
i just said i'm going to go check with bob see how he's doing.
he's doing well
i was delighted he remembered the
uh... times we had together ok so it was good
now here is right here
at UMBC
it's a case of where
academia and industry join hands
and and we still have uh... representation from RWD
technology
on our program advisory board (COOK:) terrific so that's that's part of our
one of our outreach
that's that's a very that's a very interesting story
what would you like to talk about
that i didn't ask you
i'd like to uh... westinghouse okay
let's talk about westinghouse
their ratio was fantastic
they wanted to be involved university
i wanted to be involved in the industry
the financial interests
and so we actually worked up a partnership
where they would express their needs
of course
and we would
take those
expressed needs back to campus
and i would work with other faculty what have you
to see if we could formulate a course
to
to support westinghouse
and then we would modify the the initial statement of needs
and then
westinghouse would modify what we said
and we negotiate back and forth
end up with a course that fit their needs
that also of course that we would get credit for
but then we repeat that process several times
and uh...
at one point in time
we have been doing where they received credit
ran into a snag
in this day was i was asked to assume some new responsibilities on campus
and that did not
that did not allow me time to teach that course
from the university
so um...
uh... we had to stop offering it
even though we worked up uh... with and the partnership
the needs at the university
prevail
so i said well golly i can't
just leave them hangin
so on my own i started
to teaching the course
but they did not receive credit
but they wanted so badly
based upon their research they knew it worked
and so
i continued to try to satisfy their requirements, their needs
there is some
real friendships developed in the process
of course you know with my engineering background
i naturally love to work with engineers
they loved it because i knew the language
and
i knew the culture
so it always was a lot of help
yet i need to say about public schools
my entire family were teachers
so i knew that culture also
uh... my mother was a teacher of first grade for forty years, my dad was a principal,
my brother was a music teacher
my sister was a-
she taught on computers
so it was very natural for me to be involved with the public schools
i had several things going for me
now some people may or may not know, your son jim
went through the program, that had to be a different experience
that doesn't happen with a lot of people (COOK:) that's true
and it'd go further than that
thats right he went through the program
he got a degree at western maryland college
yeah
and then
came into our program
and just zoomed right through it
and it was a good fit
but - and over the years
he's been very helpful to me
and um
there's one situation where
i got a call from
DC schools
"marvin, i need to get help, i need somebody who got your skills but at the
junior level"
and i said well i'll look around and see what i can do
and i
found all of them
had jobs
either part-time or full-time or what have you
really were not available
and i thought about jim
maybe i need to mention jim too
and i did
and they said lets have supper together
that same day
we met with a representative from DC schools
they had a gentlemens
contract right there on the spot
so he was very useful
to to the school system
for a period of time there
and we've um -
in fact he and i were talking about this the other day
delightful
to be a father and a son
to be in the same field
and to be able to share ideas
back-and-forth , its been
delightful
thats a great story
well its very - adding to that
- you can cut all this out if you like
he was without a job
like everybody else
for a period of time, cause he was laid off with others
and uh... at the
- where he was employed
and um...
he now has a job after searching for ten months
that fits him perfectly
and he and i enjoy talking and comparing notes
as we go about it
our careers that's great
one of the things that i am curious about when i first
met you
uh...
not in person, i remember talking to you over the phone you were living you
were retired living in louisiana at the time
and then you made decision to to move back to uh... maryland and i'm
curious you'd probably been away from UMBC the campus for a number of
years and
you came back i'm just curious what your reaction was, what you saw, what you
experienced and what that was like
well, coming back was real-
it was interesting to be this close to the activity at UMBC
and its always been a keen interest of mine
just for how UMBC is doing
and of course these days we're doing terrifically with
uh... Freeman's
the recognition and what have you
that's been a really great
but i was more shocked than anything
about something you pulled off
what'd i do
when you put together that recognition, the event
for uh
regarding
my activity in the
in the program
i was just amazed that at the turn out of people, students, former alumni,
and uh...
it was very impressive to me
that uh...
an organization could recognize
your work the way that you all did
i was a, to use a term, flabbergasted () well i think it was the right thing
to do what i think you've been
tremendous at
helping others and recognizing others achievements and i think
you deserve the same
well i really appreciate it very much