Don Smith
Professor Emeritus
Phone number : 701-231-7401
Fax number : 701-231-8677
Email address : Donald.Smith@ndsu.nodak.edu
Office: EE 101R
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,Electrical Engineering,University of Minnesota,1968
M.S.,Electrical Engineering,University of Minnesota,1960
B.S.,Electrical Engineering,University of Minnesota,1957
WORK EXPERIENCE
1981-2001,Professor of Electrical Engineering,NDSU
1974-1981,Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering,NDSU
1968-1974,Research Staff Member,GE,Schenectady,NY
1964-1968,Electronics Engineer,US Army Electronics Command,Ft.Monmouth,NJ
1959-1964,Instructor,EE Dept.,Univ. of Minn.,Minneapolis,MN
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Electronics
Optical Communication
COURSES TAUGHT
Electronics I
Electronics II
Circuit Analysis I
Applied Electromagnetics
Communication Circuits
Digital Electronics
Integrated Circuits
Advanced Electronics
PATENTS
US Patent No. 3,600,587, Frequency Shift Keying Laser Communication System
US Patent No. 3,695,643, System and Method of Channel Performance Monitoring
US Patent No. 3,740,591, Bucket-Brigade Tuned Sampled Data Filter
US Patent No. 3,775,703, Hybrid Filter
US Patent No. 3,787,852, Bucket-Brigade Delay Line Time Multiplexed MTI
Circuit
for Radar
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
D.A.Smith&R.F.Lambert,"Effects of Dynamical Nonlinearity on Extremal
Statistics",
J.Acoust.Soc.Am.32,Dec.1960.
T.I.Smits,D.A.Smith&R.F.Lambert,"Crest and Extremal Statistics of a
Square-Law-Derived Random Process,"J.Acoust.Soc.Am.34,Dec.1963.
Smith,Shedd,Lipton&Johnson,"Application of Lasers to Tactical Ground
Communications,"IEEE International Conf. on Communication,June 1967.
M.M.Whatley&D.A.Smith,"Digital Modulation of Lasers for Tactical Communication
Applications,"Southwest IEEE Conference,April 1968.
D.A.Smith,"Channel Monitoring by Polarity Coincidence Correlation Techniques,"
IEEE Canadian Symposium on Communications,Nov.1970.
Smith,Puckette&Butler "Active Band-Pass Filtering with Bucket-Brigade
Delay
Lines,"IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,Oct.1972.
Butler,Puckette&Smith,"Differential Mode of Operation for Bucket-Brigade
Circuits,"Electronics Letters Mar.1973.
Puckette,Butler&Smith,"Bucket-Brigade Transversal Filters,"Joint Special
Issue
of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society,
July 1974
Smith,Butler&Puckette,"A Programmable Bandpass Filter and Tone Generator
Using
Bucket-Brigade Delay Lines,"Joint Special Issue of the IEEE Communications
Society and the IEEE Circuits and System Society,July 1974.
Y.S.Liu&D.A.Smith,"The Frequency Response of an Amplitude-Modulated
GaAs
Luminescence Diode,"Proceedings of the IEEE,Mar.1975.
Smith,Larson&Chen,"Reduction of Intermodulation Distortion in Optical
Fiber
Communications Systems,"Proc.ND Acad.of Sci.Apr.1984.
Smith,Zhu&Chao,"Optical Fiber Communication with Compensation on the
Receiving
End,"Proc.ND Acad.of Sci.Apr.1986.
D.A.Smith,"Computer-Aided Laboratory Measurements in Electronics,"Proc.ND
Acad.
of Sci.Apr.1987.
T.Tsui&D.A.Smith,"A Prototype Design of a Computer-Controlled Spreader
System
for Prescription Farming Technology,"Proc.ND Acad.of Sci.Apr.1992.
J.Deng&D.A.Smith,"Prediction of Dielectric Breakdown in Underground
Cables,"
Proc.ND Acad.of Sci.Apr.1994.
MEMBERSHIPS
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Senior Member
American Society for Engineering Education
Eta Kappa Nu - Advisor
Tau Beta Pi - Advisor,Past Chapter President
Sigma Xi
North Dakota Academy of Science
Knights of Columbus - Past Grand Knight,Past District Deputy,Past Faithful
Navigator
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