Electrical Engineering Dictionary (PA Laplante,CRC).pdf

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Electrical Engineering Dictionary.

Ed. Phillip A. Laplante

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Preface

One can only appreciate the magnitude of eort required to develop a dictionary by

actually experiencing it. Although I had written nine other books, I certainly did not

know what I was getting into when in January of 1996 I agreed to serve as Editor-in-

Chief for this project. Now, after 2 1/2 years I understand.

Unlike other books that I have written, creating this dictionary was more a test

of will and stamina and an exercise in project management than mere writing. And

although I have managed organizations of up to 80 academics, nothing is more like

\herding cats" than motivating an international collection of almost 200 distinguished

engineers, scientists, and educators scattered around the globe almost entirely via

email. Yet, I think there is no other way to undertake a project like this. I still marvel

at how Noah Webster must have managed to construct his English Dictionary without

the benets of modern communication.

But this project, as much as it is a monument to individual will, is really the

collaborative work of many brilliant and dedicated men and women. This is their

dictionary and your dictionary.

Phillip A. Laplante, PE, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief

President

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

Media, Pennsylvania

Editorial Board

E.R. Davies

UniversityofLondon

Associate Editor: Signal and

Image Processing

Andrew Kahng

University of California at Berkeley

Co-Editor: Digital electronics, VLSI,

hardware description language

Mike Fiddy

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Editor: Electro-optical and lightwave systems

Mark Kinsler

Editor: Power systems

Mike Golio

Rockwell Collins

Editor: Microwave systems

Lauren Laplante

Public Service Electric and Gas

Editor: Properties of materials

Marco Gori

University of Florence

Associate Editor: Information Processing

Sudhakar Muddu

Silicon Graphics

Co-Editor: Digital electronics, VLSI,

hardware description language

Ling Guan

University of Sydney

Editor: Communications and information

processing

Meredith Nole

American Efﬁcient Lighting

Editor: Illumination

Bob Herrick

Purdue University

Editor: RF, radio and television

Amos Omondi

Flinders University

Editor: Computer engineering (I/O and storage)

Jeff Honchell

Purdue University

Associate Editor: RF, radio and television

Ian Oppermann

University of Sydney

Associate Editor: Communication

Jin Jiang

University of Western Ontario

Editor: Circuits and systems

John Prince

University of Arizona

Editor: Packaging

Tadeusz Kaczorek

Warsaw University of Technology

Editor: Control systems

Mark Reed

Yale University

Editor: Microelectronics and solid state devices

David Shively

Shively Engineering

Editor: Electromagnetics

Eugene Veklerov

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Editor: Signal and image processing

Tim Skvarenina

Purdue University

Editor: Electric machines and power electronics

Janusz Zalewski

University of Central Florida

Editor: Computer engineering (processors)

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