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About the Author

John Santiago retired from the military in 2003 with 26 years of service in the United States Air Force (USAF). John has served in a variety of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development, and operation research support. While assigned in Europe for three years with the USAF, he spearheaded more than 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member.

John has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions, including control and modeling of large, flexible space structures; communications systems; electro-optics; high-energy lasers; missile seekers/sensors for precision-guided munitions; image processing/recognition; information technologies; space, air, and missile warning; missile defense; and homeland defense.

One of John’s favorite assignments was serving as an associate professor at the USAF Academy during his tour from 1984 through 1989. John is currently a professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Colorado Technical University, where he has taught 26 different undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical and systems engineering.

Some of his awards include Faculty of the Year at Colorado Technical University in 2008; USAF Academy Outstanding Military Educator in 1989; and USAF Academy Outstanding Electrical Engineering Educator in 1998.

During his USAF career, John received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico; his Master of Science in Resource Strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, specializing in electro-optics; and his Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

On February 14, 1982, John married Emerenciana F. Manaois.

More information about John’s background and experience is available at www.FreedomUniversity.TV.

Dedication

To my heavenly Father, thank you for all the many blessings, especially the gift of family and friends.

To my lovely Emily, thank you for your loving and continued support, always and forever.

To my parents, who bravely immigrated here from the Philippines to live in this great nation.

To the Founding Fathers, who were engineers and visionary leaders in creating this great country called the United States. To their creative genius and to all those standing on their shoulders, especially the next generation of engineers.

To all those who wondered if there’s anything more to circuit analysis than Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Many people have been involved in this book, and I thank them all. First, to all the former cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, the students at the University of West Florida, and the students at the Colorado Technical University who endured my class lessons and asked a gazillion questions over the years as I continued to learn to become a better teacher.

I’d like to thank a team of players who’ve made my writing presentable. First, I’d like to thank Matt Wagner, my agent, who contacted me about writing this book. I’d also especially like to thank the folks at Wiley who made this book possible: Erin Mooney, my acquisitions editor; Jennifer Tebbe, my project editor; and Danielle Voirol, my copy editor.

I’d again like to thank my wife for her encouragement and for keeping me straight about the things going on at home and in the community as I went through this writing adventure.

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