David Lane, Viterbi School Board of Councilors

Engineering Me

MY NAME: David Lane, Viterbi School Board of Councilors

HOME: San Francisco Bay Area, California

DEGREE: BSEE 1981

JOB TITLE: General Partner, ONSET Ventures

LIFELONG DREAM: To leave the world a better place

FAVORITE VITERBI PROF: Dr. Willard Rusch

BOOK I'M READING: Bible

ON MY iPOD: ’60s,’70s and early ’80s music

WORDS TO LIVE BY: Truth; treat others as you would have them treat you

ENGINEERING HEROES: The legendary entrepreneurs who built Silicon Valley, such as Gordon Moore of intel

NEXT TRIP: Galapagos Islands

BEST TIME OF DAY: Early morning

FAVORITE GADGET: Blackberry with GPS

BEST USC MEMORY: Engineering classes in the morning, playing on USC baseball team in the afternoons

TOUGHEST ENGINEERING CLASS: Electromagnetics

NUMBER ONE URL: www.onset.com

NUMBER OF TROJANS IN MY LIFE: Too few in the Bay Area

PROUDEST MOMENT: Watching a miracle as my children were born

BIGGEST CHALLENGE: Learning to walk after paralysis

INSPIRATION: My father and mother