ISBN: Copyright year: 2007 Preface--Second Edition We are all imperfect teachers, but we may be forgiven if we have advanced the matter a little, and have done our best. We announce the prologue, and retire; after us better players will come. —Will Durant Genesis and Growth of this Textbook The origins of this classic textbook Pulse, Digital and Switching Waveforms go back to an age earlier than 1940s. Frederick Emmons Terman, author, teacher, mentor, university administrator, and well known as the father of California’s Silicon Valley, was perhaps the first author to write a comprehensive textbook on Electronics way back in 1932. He graduated from Stanford University in 1920 with major in Chemistry, switched his field to electrical engineering, and received his master’s degree in 1922.

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After obtaining his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924, he joined Stanford University in 1925 and began his work on his first textbook on Radio Engineering. The success of Terman’s books, which had profound effect on his own reputation in electrical engineering, may be traced in part to his choice of subject matter. Professor Terman also functioned as the Consulting Editor for most of the pioneering textbooks published in the McGraw- Hill Electrical and Electronics Engineering Series commencing from early 1930s. We find in Chapter 18 on Wave Shaping, Non-linear Waves and Pulse Techniques a reference to a large body of literature on pulse circuits in the textbook Electronic and Radio Engineering Fourth Edition, by Terman, published by McGraw-Hill, New York, in 1955. Balancing Act 2nd Edition on this page. Terman was the first person to receive the prestigious IEEE James H.Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal established in 1956. Through this medal, IEEE recognises the importance of the educator’s contribution to the vitality, imagination, and leadership of the members of engineering profession.

The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and honorarium. Significantly, Millman received the same award 14 years later. The trail blazed by Professor Terman was not allowed to fade away with his death on December 19, 1982 at the age of 82, Professor Jacob Millman being one of the torchbearers. Jacob Millman, born in 1911 in Russia, received Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1935. In the annals of Columbia University, the post-war period of 1950s and 60s is treated as the golden era of systems and control theory. More Games Like Heatherdale. Millman taught Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York from 1946 to 1951 and later joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University in 1952. He was named Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1965 and, at his retirement, became the Charles Bachelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering.

Pioneering textbooks by Millman in Electronics, by Ragazzini, G.Franklin, and Jury in sampleddata controls, and by Schwartz and B. Friedland in linear systems made the work of this group known throughout the world. In 1950, major changes began in electronic circuits. During World War II electronic devices as well as television were entering the consumer market. The number of electronics courses and laboratories were on the rise. Pulse circuits, as described in the MIT Radiation Laboratory series, became a course of study as an alternative means of viewing electron tube circuits.

This was later distilled in the book Pulse and Digital Circuits by Jacob Millman and Herbert Taub. With the publication of Pulse and Digital Circuits in 1956, Jacob Millman and Herbert Taub become legends in their own lifetime. Professor Jacob Millman wrote eight standard textbooks on electronics between 1941 and 1987.