Digital Communication Systems
Using
SystemVue

Digital Communication Systems
Using Matlab and Simulink

Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays

System Chip Design Laboratory

Temple University Amateur Radio Club  K3TU

Room 706                      
College of Engineering          
Temple University
1947 North 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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Eta Kappa Nu 1967     Tau Beta Pi 1967     Phi Kappa Phi 1968    Sigma Xi 1983
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1983

ASEE Zone I Outstanding Campus Representative 1996
ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Distinguished Teaching Award 2006

ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award 2007          Temple Times

Citation: Recognized by the National Outstanding Teaching Award for his significant pedagogical innovations in undergraduate analog and digital communications, capstone senior design and high school outreach programs.

College of Engineering, Temple University, Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award 2000
College of Engineering, Temple University, Outstanding Service Award 2007

American Radio Relay League, Atlantic Division Technical Achievement Award 2001

American Society for Engineering Education
   Middle Atlantic Section  1996-2002
      Chair 1999-2000
   Electrical and Computer Engineering Division  2005-2009
      Vice Chair and Annual Conference Division Program Chair  2006-2007
      Chair  2007-2008   Past Chair 2008-2009

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
   IEEE Computer Society
   IEEE Educational Society
   IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
   IEEE Signal Processing Society
   IEEE Engineering Accreditation Commission of the
       Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
            Program Evaluator in Electrical Engineering and
                 in Computer Engineering
  
International Association of Radio and Television Engineers

Da Vinci Engineering Press, Thomson Delmar Publishing 2006

SystemVue models of baseband and bandpass modulation and demodulation systems, time, frequency and code division multiplexing, synchronization and equalization, channel models, and baseband and bandpass signal sampling in digital communication system design.

Description     Table of Contents  (pdf)

Digital Communication Systems Using MATLAB and Simulink

Bookstand Publishing 2009

MATLAB and Simulink models of baseband and bandpass modulation and demodulation systems, time, frequency and code division multiplexing, synchronization and equalization, channel models, and baseband and bandpass signal sampling in digital communication system design.

Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays

Bookstand Publishing, 2008

Embedded design with behavioral synthesis controller-datapath models in Verilog, C-to-Verilog translation, Xilinx LogiCORE blocks and the PicoBlaze 8-bit soft-core processor utilizing the Xilinx Spartan-3E field programmable gate array evaluation boards, the Xilinx ISE WebPACK and applications in digital signal processing, communications and control.

Description

Data Acquisition Systems for Anthropometric Manikins
Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent, MD

Sixty-four channel 12-bit sensor data acquisition system for an anthropometric manikin featuring programmable gain analog instrumentation amplifiers and concurrent data sampling using a dual microprocessor environment.

Holographic Optical Correlation
The Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems, Philadelphia, PA

Automatic target identification using photorefractive crystals to store FLIR image features; massively parallel optical image processing; characterization of target images and spatial light modulator in MATLAB.

Motion Imaging and Tracking Acquisition System
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation

Real-time, non-contact measurement of thoracic deflection in anthropometric manikins using illuminated targets and video line scanners.

Director of the System Chip Design Laboratory www.temple.edu/scdc

Programmable gate arrays in digital signal processing, digital data communication and and software radio using Xilinx Spartan-3/3E, Virtex, Virtex II Pro and Virtex 4 devices and Xilinx XtremeDSP and Xilinx System Generator design environment, supported by the Xilinx University Program.

EE642  Speech Processing
EE790  Special Topics: Software Radio

American Radio Relay League
   Technical Coordinator, Eastern Pennsylvania Section 1992-1998
   Assistant Director, Atlantic Division 1998-2002

Amateur Extra Class License  K3DS

Trustee, Temple University Amateur Radio Club  K3TU

Life Member, Yeadon Fire Company #1, Station 16, Delaware County PA

College Faculty Council  1996-1999  2005-2008  

Advisor, Iota Sigma Chapter, Eta Kappa Nu 1989-2009

Associate Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering  1989-1992
Director, Electrical Engineering Technology Program 1999-2003

ABET Coordinator, Electrical Engineering Program 1999-2009

ASEE 2008 Embedded System Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays