Hopkinson set up a successful practice as an electrical-engineering consultant in 1878.
The assignment included highway engineering, drainage and hydrology engineering, electrical engineering, public consultation, and traffic engineering.
Although only a few crude samples have been built, Dr. Yan Kucherov, director of research and development at the Salt Lake City company, Eneco Inc., and Dr. Peter L. Hagelstein, professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and a technical consultant at Eneco, say that their devices improve the efficiency of the conversion by more than half.
"This is one of those things that could have great potential if they can work out the details," said William J. Dally, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and a consultant for Cray on its supercomputer project financed by the Pentagon agency.
Most of the buildings were built without the input of professionals and consultants in the field of electrical engineering and energy efficiency.
Mr. La Follette, 33, is a computer systems consultant in Rye Brook, N.Y., for Entex IT Service, a computer consulting subsidiary of Siemens, the German electrical engineering and electronics company.
"Into the monkey house we go to stir up the inmates!" In the 35 years since Bill graduated from MIT with degrees in electrical engineering and biology he has been a scientist, an engineer, a product manager, a salesman, a consultant, an entrepreneur, an author, a technology evangelist, and a venture capitalist.
In the 35 years since Bill graduated from MIT with degrees in electrical engineering and biology he has been a scientist, an engineer, a product manager, a salesman, a consultant, an entrepreneur, an author, a technology evangelist, and a venture capitalist.
He studied electrical engineering.
He was a master of electrical engineering.
