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SEAS Faculty

Dr. Louis Ippolito, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has written a new book, entitled Satellite Communications Systems Engineering: Atmospheric Effects, Satellite Link Design and System Performance. The book, which provides detailed and up-to-date coverage of atmospheric effects and their impact on satellite communications systems design and performance, is published by Wiley. Dr. Ippolito teaches satellite communications for SEAS.

At the invitation of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Prof. Howard Eisner prepared and delivered a one-half day tutorial on the subject “Thinking Outside the Box in Systems Engineering” on May 10, 2008. A second tutorial was requested and is planned for presentation on September 20, 2008. Its title is “Systems Acquisition and Integration."

The 3rd edition of Prof. Howard Eisner's book, Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management, from John Wiley, came out this year. This book expanded the text and subject coverage in such areas as numerical trade-offs, errors in systems, group processes, system architectures, modeling and simulation, system complexity, acquisition and integration, and others.

Prof. Rajat Mittal’s swimming research received plenty of media attention this summer during the approaching, and later ongoing, Olympics. National Public Radio, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics, among other media, interviewed him for radio news programs and print articles. More info . . .

Prof. Sameh Badie was interviewed by FOX 5 News on August 26th in response to the recent Bay Bridge incident near Annapolis, MD.