Rei's Engineering Degree

Rei was a student athlete. As mentioned yesterday, he swam all four years for the Syracuse swim team. But he really did enjoy learning and worked hard to get his engineering degree. He got a B.S. in General Engineering which sounds bland but the reality is, he studied multiple disciplines and was qualified to work in many areas.

He studied Agricultural, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial and Aerospace. Because he was a general engineer, he did not qualify for outstanding recognition in any specific discipline (referred to as being ranked in Rome's Revolution) but that did not diminish his worth. Even though Sally Reynolds asked her father to put Rei in the Ark program, all it did was get her father's committees to consider Rei. He actually got in on his own merits.

We see evidence of this throughout Rome's Revolution, The Ark Lords and Rome's Evolution. It was his engineering skills that allowed him to defeat the Stareater, crash-land the Ark II on Deucado and eventually create Project Broadloom. You will learn in a future book that he designed an even more ambition agricultural program called Project Desert Bloom but that is for another day.

So here's to Rei Beirak, Engineer Extraordinare, and taking his skill set and applying it to make life better for all in the 35th century.