Education:
- Ph.D. University of Toledo 1989
- MSEE University of Iowa 1971
- BSEE University of Iowa 1970
Areas of Teaching and Research:
- Analog and Digital Filter Design
- Digital Signal Processing
- Image Coding
Honors and Distinctions:
- Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering Science 2002-03, 1996-97, 1993-94
- Woody Everett Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation at 1994 ASEE National Convention
- Engineering Alumni Chair Award 1992-93
Selected Publications:
- "Practical Analog and Digital Filter Design", Artech House, 2005.
- "Analog and Digital Filter Design Using C", Prentice Hall, 1996.
- “Matlab and Visual Basic Methodologies for the Design of Medical Image Processing Software,” Advisor of student project presented at North Central Section of ASEE in Dayton, OH, April, 1997.
- “Using Matlab to Demonstrate Digital Signal Processing Concepts,” presented at North Central Section ASEE Conference in Dearborn, MI, April, 1997.
- “Teaching a Course in C and Filter Design,” presented at Illinois/Indiana Section ASEE Conference, March, 1995.
- “The Optimization of Vector Quantizers by Minimizing Variance,” presented at IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory at Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1994.
- “A Comparison of Methods for the Optimization of VGA Colors,” presented and published at two conferences: IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, March, 1993 & ASEE National Convention, June, 1993. This paper won the Woody Everett Award in the Computers in Education poster session at the ASEE conference.
- “Analog and Digital Filter Design with the Aid of MathCAD,” presented at the ASEE North Central Section Conference, Toledo, OH, 1992.
- “Development of an Undergraduate DSP Lab Using Standard PC’s,” presented at the ASEE North Central Section Conference, Saginaw Valley State University, 1991.
- “A Hybrid Data Compression Scheme,” Journal of Data & Computer Communications, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall, 1991.
- “A Hybrid Data Compression Scheme Using Quaternary Decomposition and Selective Multistage Vector Quantization,” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dallas, TX, November 1989.
- “Image Sequence Coding by Classified Vector Quantization Using Quaternary Decomposition with Simulated Annealing Optimization of Codebooks,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Glasgow, Scotland, May, 1989.
