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About the Authors

Richard C. Dorf is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Uni-
versity of California, Davis. Known as an instructor who is highly concerned with
the discipline of electrical engineering and its application to social and economic
needs, Professor Dorf has written and edited several successful engineering text-
books and handbooks, including the best selling Engineering Handbook, second
edition and the third edition of the Electrical Engineering Handbook. Professor
Dorf is also co-author of Technology Ventures, a leading textbook on technology
entrepreneurship. Professor Dorf is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the
ASEE. He is active in the fields of control system design and robotics. Dr. Dorf
holds a patent for the PIDA controller.

Robert H. Bishop is the OPUS Dean of Engineering at Marquette University. Prior
to coming to Marquette University, he was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin for 20 years
where he held the Joe J. King Professorship and was a Distinguished Teaching
Professor. Professor Bishop started his engineering career as a member of the tech-
nical staff at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He authors the well-known
textbook for teaching graphical programming entitled Learning with LabVIEW and
is also the editor-in-chief of the Mechatronics Handbook. A talented educator, Pro-
fessor Bishop has been recognized with numerous teaching awards including the
coveted Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Award for Excellence in Engi-
neering Teaching. He also received the John Leland Atwood Award by the Ameri-
can Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE) and the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) that is given periodically to "a leader who
has made lasting and significant contributions to aerospace engineering education."
He is a Fellow of the AIAA, a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS),
and active in ASEE and in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE).

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