Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Editors & Contributors

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About the Editor

John G. Webster, Ph.D., is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the Instrument Society of America, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. His many honors and awards include the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, AAMI Foundation Laufman-Greatbatch Prize, and the University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Webster is also the editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation and has developed 14 other publications.

Editorial Board

Ron Clinton Andrews, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

John Baillieul, Ph.D.
Boston University, Boston, MA

Jim Bezdek, Ph.D.
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

Richard E. Blahut, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Alexander T. Bulinski, Ph.D.
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON, Canada

William M. Cary, Ph.D.
Editor, Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Old Lyme, CT

J. R. Cruz, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Clarence W. de Silva, Ph.D., P. Engr.
The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Edward Della Torre, D.E.Sc.
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Joseph Dudor, Ph.D.
Consultant, Midway City, CA

Stephen A. Dyer, Ph.D.
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Bill Grosky, Ph.D.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Martin Hasler, Ph.D.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Richard G. Hoft, Ph.D.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA

E. Bruce Hunter, B.S.E.E./M.B.A.
USIA Information Agency
International Boadcasting Bureau, Greenville, NC

Renuka P. Jindal, Ph.D.
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Princeton, NJ

Dan Kahn, Ph.D.
E-Speech Corporation, Gillette, NJ

Motohisa Kanda, Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Rangachar Kasturi, Ph.D.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Arie E. Kaufman, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY

Curt A. Levis, Ph.D.
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Ronald J. Marhefka, Ph.D.
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Daniel Masse
Retired, Wapole, MA

Gary S. May, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

James Miller, M.S.E.E.
Gamma-Metrics, San Diego, CA

G. Marshall Molen, Ph.D.
Mississippi State University, Mississippi, MS

Joan G. Nagle, B.S.
Retired, Aiken, SC

Michael R. Neuman, Ph.D., M.D.
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

William D. O'Brien, Jr., Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

David A. Padua, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Michael Pecht, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Raymond L. Pickholtz
George Washington University, Washington, DC

Ramu V. Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Andrew P. Sage, Ph.D., D.Engr.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Phillip A. Sanger, Ph.D.
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Science Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Bing J. Sheu, Ph.D.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

James A. Smith, Ph.D.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

John Stafford, M.S.
Motorola, Consumer Systems Group, Tempe, AZ

Tatsuya Suda, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine, CA

Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr., Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin, TX

Russell H. Taylor, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Michael W. Vannier, M.D.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Benjamin W. Wah, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

John W. Woods, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA