Roger, It’s Just Test Equipment

Mr. Roger Nichols
Retired Engineering Manager of Keysight Technologies

Salazar Hall 2009A
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Abstract: “Roger, it’s Just Test Equipment”: Lessons From Four Decades of Engineering 1985: the year introducing both Microsoft Windows and the GNU Manifesto; 2025: the year of GPT4.5 and injectable pacemakers. This talk is for those entering or about to enter the technical fields. It will focus on a few lessons learned in those intervening four decades. The lens and perspective are from a career not in one of the big visible tech firms, but in the technology of measurement and numerical analysis. Such has allowed a small-town boy to get direct and more objective exposure to wider variety of some of the more visible technical innovations of those forty years.

Bio: Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1985 and worked in design and measurement technology with focus on the mobile wireless industry ever since. He spent the last ten years of his career as the 5G, and then 6G Program Manager for Keysight Technologies, Inc. ; and for the last four years of his career he was a member of the FCC Technological Advisory Council. He worked on every wireless generation since 1G doing engineering and management of projects, programs, and departments, in R&D, marketing, and manufacturing as part of Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, and Keysight.