As a high school student, he competed in the National Oratorical Contest on the U.S. constitution, winning first place in Bergen County, New Jersey.
[4] He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology beginning in 1929 and became editor of the undergraduate technical journal there.
During World War II, he worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and traveled overseas installing LORAN sites.
[1][6] At the IEEE, he played an important role in guiding the institute through its formative years and in expanding the role of the institute from the technical and scientific study of engineering to an expanded view of engineering that also encompassed its professional and societal aspects.
[1][2][8] He became a Fellow of the IRE in 1947 "in recognition of his espousal of high standards of technical publishing and for his wartime contributions in the field of electronic aids to navigation"; he was also elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1951 and of the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.