Professor Carol Richardson taught and administered academic programs in Engineering Technology (ET) during her career of over 30 years at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York. ET programs at RIT began in 1975 and have since grown to over 1600 students in the College of Engineering Technology in 2025. Richardson’s career at RIT began in the late 1970s, and her involvement in local and national professional engineering societies was instrumental to the early development and growth of the university’s ET programs. These were initially 2-year upper division programs, but they soon transitioned to 5-year programs with a full year of co-op work experience. Richardson describes in this chapter the path of her faculty promotions and how her work enhanced ET programs at RIT. Then, she details how ET programs needed to be differentiated from more traditional engineering programs for students, parents, and companies that employed graduating students. The chapter goes on to provide a description of the innovative forms of networking that the School of Engineering Technology in the college at RIT enacted with community colleges and high schools across the state of New York. Finally, the chapter finishes with a focus on how a 2017 National Academy of Engineering study on ET academic programs recommended several initiatives that RIT had incorporated into their program many years before, positioning Professor Richardson and RIT at the vanguard of ET as we know it.