User:Nitelinger

 This page is dedicated to the memory of a Wikipedian who has died. Nitelinger passed away on 29 March 2009 from a heart attack. His userpage is preserved for historical purposes.

I am a native and long-time resident of the Milwaukee area.

I am an engineer/manager by profession, and was a professor of mechanical engineering for many years. I've occasionally served as a race engineer, having engineered Bill Auberlen's first IMSA win at Road America in Elkhart Lake in 1993. I began my involvement with the Society_of_Automotive_Engineers (SAE) student design competitions starting in 1978, and have served as a student member, student branch chairman, faculty advisor, competition official, competition organizer (Mini Baja), instigator, member and chair of the SAE student design competitions committee, motorsports design judge at Formula SAE and Formula Student, etc. I've wound down my SAE activities, but may still judge on occasion.

I founded the "Folk City" program on WMSE radio in 1984, and hosted it through 1992. I also did our talk show "Milwaukee Talking" in 1985-86.

I have chronicled the history of Wisconsin's TV horror hosts for articles in Scary Monsters magazine, as well as on my website: Milwaukee TV Horror Hosts.

My sidepage: A Brief History of Milwaukee Television: The Analog Years has become the online source for Milwaukee television history, and editors here have used it for information on the early history of the city's stations.

My book: Milwaukee Television History: The Analog Years was published by the Marquette University Press in December of 2008. It received the Milwaukee County Historical Society's Gambrinus Prize for the best book-length contribution to Milwaukee historiography published in 2008.

I don't edit here much, but occasionally get involved in some areas -- particularly Milwaukee broadcasting history.