About the Author

Mike Smith has been professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary in Canada since 1981. He teaches, and does research, in the application of microprocessors and digital signal processors. His research covers the theory and implementation of the high-speed modeling algorithms used for telecommunications and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image processing.

With a background as an experimental applied physicist, come engineer, he has a teaching philosophy of providing "hands-on" experiences to his students. He believes that students should try things for themselves, and occasionally fail, since

Good judgment comes from experience, and
Experience comes from bad judgement!

He has numerous scientific papers and publishes regularly in Circuit Cellar Inc. -- the Computer Applications Journal. He was awarded the Sandford Fleming Foundation's 1994 Wighton Fellowship for Innovative teaching in the undergraduate laboratories of a Canadian Engineering School.

He has begun teaching and applying Watts Humphries' software engineering Personal Software Process to the development of small software projects in both high level and assembly language programming. Details of his software engineering background and graduate course can be found at site

http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/Smith/Smith.html



Last modified: July 03, 1996 09:15 PM by M. Smith Copyright -- M. R. Smith