Graduating from Oregon State with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1950, Robert Rankin worked as a consultant on a number of projects in Washington state and Alaska in addition to a job with the engineering firm CH2M-Hill in Corvallis. Rankin also worked as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at OSU for two terms in the 1956-1957 school year.
Images of graduate students studying in the fields of chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering - departments that had had professional degrees granted in the previous year, 1937.