earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1953 and worked at RCA Laboratories on early color TV broadcast systems and the first transistor radios. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1962, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University, where he taught for nearly three decades, originated courses in information theory, error-correcting codes, and analog filter design, and twice received Professor of the Year honors. He was the first at ISU to teach SPICE for circuit analysis, contributed to advances in digital compression and coding methods, and in retirement continued to support students through textbooks, solution manuals, and simulation tools.
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