A. In the course of my education at MIT, three teachers shaped my thinking.
B. Their combined contributions formed the foundation on which I later built my professional career.
C. Prof. Sponder taught me technical aerodynamics.
D. These three teachers were Prof. Sponder, Prof. KAV Pandalai and Prof. Narasingha Rao. E. Each one of them had very distinct personalities, but they shared a common impulse— the capacity to feed their students’ intellectual hunger by sheer brilliance and untiring zeal. F. He was an Austrian with rich practical experience in aeronautical engineering.