Published: 2004
MAHMOOD NAHVI is Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He earned B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and has 44 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of special interest include network theory, control theory, communications engineering, signal processing, neural networks, adaptive control and learning in synthetic and living systems, communication and control in the central nervous system, and engineering education. In the area of engineering education, he has developed computer modules for electric circuits, signals, and systems that improve teaching and learning of the fundamentals of electrical engineering.
JOSEPH A. EDMINISTER is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron in Ohio, where he taught from 1957 until his retirement in 1983. He was also Assistant Dean and Acting Dean of Engineering. After serving on the staff of Ohio Congressman Dennis Eckart in 1984, Edminister joined Cornell University as a patent attorney and later as Director of Corporate Relations for the College of Engineering. He retired from Cornell in 1995. He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering, a master of science in engineering, and a juris doctorate from the University of Akron. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio as well as a member of the bar and a registered patent attorney. He is the author of Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Electromagnetics.
WILLIAM T. SMITH is Associate Professor in the department of electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught since 1990 and has twice won the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was an academic visitor at the IBM Austin Research Laboratory and previously worked as a senior engineer in the Government Aerospace Systems Division of Harris Corporation. He is also the co-author of several journal articles and conference papers and served as abridgement editor of Schaum's Easy Outline: Basic Electricity and Schaum's Easy Outline: Electromagnetics.
