This book focuses on the math and science fundamentals of the information revolution and shows readers how engineers create and design the technology around them. Applications are drawn from a wide array of modern devices and systems seen today. Chapter topics include the world of modern engineering, creating digital music, designing digital instruments, making digital images, math you can see, digitizing the world, networks and the Internet, compressing information, correcting digital errors, keeping data private, digital processing of signals, communication channels, the wireless world, bandwidth, designing networks, and hardware for digital storage and imaging. For individuals trying to realize the relevance of technology in the 21st century and related career opportunities.
Geoffrey C. Orsak received the B.S.E.E., M.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX in 1985, 1986, and 1990, respectively.
He is currently Associate Dean of the School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, where he is also Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. In addition, he is Director of The Infinity Project, a partnership between SMU, Texas Instruments, leading national universities, and high schools aimed at bringing advanced technology and engineering education to the high school classroom. Prior to coming to SMU, he was Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, where he also served as Presidential Fellow. His research interests are in the area of wireless communications, information theory, and statistical signal processing. In addition to this work, he has also been active in the use of high technology for novel forms of pedagogy. In 1995, together with Professor Delores M. Etter of the University of Colorado at Boulder, he cofounded SPEC–The Signal Processing Education Consortium, a geographically distributed consortium of faculty whose aim is to advance DSP education at the undergraduate level. He has been a past recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award 1991-1994 and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
During 1998-1999, Dr. Orsak served as a member of the Defense Science Study Group, a program "that introduces outstanding young scientists and engineers to challenges facing national security," which is sponsored by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Ravi Athale received the B.Sc. degree in 1972 from University of Bombay and the M.Sc degree in 1974 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, both in physics. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1980 in electrical engineering from University of California, San Diego.
From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a Research Physicist at US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. His areas of research were optical signal and image processing systems. From 1985 to 1990 he was a Senior Principal Staff Member at BDM Corporation, McLean, VA, where he headed a group in Optical Computing. His research there concerned optical interconnects and multistage switching networks and optical neural network implementations. Since 1990 he has been an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. His research at GMU has been in the areas of fiber optic signal processing and the analysis of fundamental limitations in optical interconnection networks. At George Mason University, he was a joint developer of a freshman introductory course for electrical engineering students, which focused on information technology aspects of EE. He is currently developing a new course on the principles of information technology, which is aimed at non-science/engineering major students and is a part of the information technology minor at George Mason University.
Dr. Athale has been awarded several patents in optical processing and computing. He is a cofounder of HoloSpex™, Inc. and a co-inventor of HoloSpex™ glasses, the first consumer product that is based on far-field holograms. He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1989.
Scott C. Douglas received the B.S. degree (with distinction), and the M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988, 1989, and 1992, respectively.
From 1992 to 1998 he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Since August 1998, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. His research activities include adaptive filtering, active noise control, blind deconvolution and source separation, and VLSI/hardware implementations of digital signal processing systems.
Dr. Douglas received the Hughes Masters Fellowship Award in 1988 and the NSF Graduate Fellowship Award in 1989. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 1995. He is the author or coauthor of four book chapters and more than 80 articles in journals and conference proceedings. He also served as a section editor for The Digital Signal Processing Handbook (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1998).
David C. Munson, Jr. was born in Red Oak, IA, in 1952. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (with distinction) from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, in 1975, and the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1977, 1977, and 1979, respectively.
Since 1979, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Research Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and a Research Professor with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His research interests are in the general area of signal and image processing with current work focused on radar imaging, tomography, interferometry, interpolation, time-frequency analysis, and digital filtering.
Dr. Munson is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. In 1990, he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the Alpha Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. In 1995, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the College of Engineering, University of Delaware. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois. He was named an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer and he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
John R. Treichler was born in Velasco, TX, on September 22, 1947. He received the B.A. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1970 and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1977.
From 1970 to 1974 he served as a line officer aboard destroyers in the U.S. Navy. From 1977 to 1983 he was with ARGOSystems, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Boeing). He served as a lecturer at Stanford between 1975 and 1983, teaching digital and adaptive signal processing, and spent the 1983-1984 academic year as an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In 1984 he cofounded Applied Signal Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, with three collegues. He is currently the company's Chief Technology Officer and also serves on the company's board of directors. The company designs and builds advanced signal processing equipment that is used by the United States government and its allies. His research interests are in the area of digital and adaptive signal processing, particularly as applied to solving problems in communications systems.
Dr. Treichler was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1991. In 1999 he received an IEEE Third Millenium Medal and was recently presented with a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the year 2000.
Sally L. Wood received the B.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University in 1969 and the M.S.E.E. Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1975 and 1978, respectively. While engaged in her Ph.D. research she also completed a minor in physiological psychology.
She joined the faculty of Santa Clara University in 1985 and is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department. At Santa Clara University she has developed and taught courses in signal and image processing at both the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition, she has developed and taught 4 freshman-level laboratory-based introductory electrical engineering course and a sophomore-level signal processing architecture course. Over the past 10 years she has developed interactive tutorials with dynamic visual presentation of basic concepts to supplement undergraduate engineering courses. This work has been supported by both industry donations and federal funding agencies. Prior to joining Santa Clara University, she had 12 years of experience in industry working on design and development of medical imaging and visualization systems, optical character recognition systems, and assistive devices for the disabled.
Prof. Wood received the Special Recognition Award from Santa Clara University in 1994 and the Research Award from the School of Engineering in 1995. Her current research interests include multiple source image analysis and nonlinear signal processing.
Mark A. Yoder was born in Ames, Iowa on December 24th, 1956. He received the B.S. degree in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in 1984, both in electrical engineering, from Purdue University.
He is currently Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. Since 1988 he has been teaching engineering at Rose-Hulman. His research interests include investigating ways to use technology to teach engineering more effectively. He pioneered, at Rose, the use of Computer Algebra Systems (such as Maple and Mathematics) in teaching electrical engineering. He also helped introduce the teaching of digital signal processing (DSP) early in the curriculum. He is the co-author of the book DSP First: A Multimedia Approach with Jim McClellan and Ron Schafer, published by Prentice-Hall in 1998. Dr. Yoder has also coauthored the book Electrical Engineering Applications with the TI-89, with David R. Voltmer, published by Texas Instruments in 1999.
Dr. Yoder is serving as General Co-Chair of the 2000 IEEE Digital Signal Processing in Education Workshop. He is a member of the IEEE Education Society Administrative Committee and a member and vice-chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Education. He has served as an Executive Board Director for the ERM division of ASEE and a program co-chair for the 1996 Frontiers in Engineering conference. He is a two time winner of the Helen Plants award for the best non-traditional workshop at FIE.
