This is an edited transcript of an oral history interview of Denny Pidhayny conducted by Volker Janssen. Topics mentioned in the interview include radar in WWII; industry standards in electronics; role of IEEE, NEMA, ISA (Instrument Society of America); women in engineering; role of computers. Denny Pidhayny was a longtime engineer at the Aerospace Corporation. He was born in 1919 to Ukrainian immigrants in Detroit, where his father worked for Ford. He studied electrical engineering at Wayne State and served in World War II as a radar operator, one of a small group to receive special training at Harvard and MIT. After the war he moved to Los Angeles and found work first at Bendix Aviation and then Hughes working on antiaircraft missile guidance. He joined Ramo-Wooldridge when they left Hughes and then left to join the Aerospace Corporation, where he worked for fifty years in guidance and communications electronics. Specific projects included ocean surveillance for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory and the Defense Satellite Communications System. As of 2010 he was still working at Aerospace at the age of 92. [Object file name], Aerospace Oral History Project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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