A job well done, to Brad's parents, to Dawn's parents and to Brad & Dawn. And, a great big congrats to the young lady. Very happy for the graduate. Especially that she already has a job.
Only thing more fun and rewarding than engineering is also having the opportunity to turn your ideas into reality with your own two hands.
Brad, now not only are you her father, but you can also be her machinist.
All of my most successful designs started out as a very basic and incomplete vision in my head and I would start machining and come up with the rest of the design as I machined parts. I called this, "engineering on the fly".
Had the autonomy to do this for nearly 10 years. Loved every minute of it.