Brent Romine

In 1986, Brent Romine’s father gave him a choice: go to FC or go to FC. “I chose the first,” Romine said.

It turned out to be the right choice. “I found the Bible classes very valuable and beneficial to my spiritual growth,” he said. “The atmosphere and fellowship with young Christian men and women were great. I also found a wonderful woman who agreed to be my wife.”

After graduating from FC in 1988, Romine followed his future bride to the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He transferred without difficulty to receive a bachelor’s in engineering. “It was a very smooth transition,” Romine said. “They studied the handbook to determine that chemistry was really quantitative chemistry and that the physics was calculus-based physics. These things matter.”

From there he went to Georgia Institute of Technology, where he completed both a masters of science degree and a doctorate in electrical engineering.

Now he is an associate group leader at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in the Air and Missile Defense Division. Currently he is "on loan to" the Missile Defense Agency, leading an Independent Assessment Team comprised of seven Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), which are similar—and in some cases the same as—National Labs.

“FC was a wonderful place for so many reasons,” Romine said. “In terms of preparing [me] for what I'm doing now, the most significant may have been that FC provided some great leadership opportunities.”