Introduction to Radio Engineering

About Christos ChristodoulouMikhail SergeevNathan Blaunstein

Nathan Blaunstein was born in Moldova former USSR in 1948. He received MS degrees in radio physics and electronics from Tomsk University Tomsk former Soviet Union in 1972 and PhD and DS and professor degrees in radio physics and electronics from the Institute of Geomagnetism Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation (IZMIR) Academy of Science USSR Moscow Russia in 1985 and 1991 respectively. From 1979 to 1984 he was an engineer and a lecturer and then from 1984 to 1992 a senior scientist an associate professor and a professor at Moldavian University Beltsy Moldova. From 1993 he was a researcher of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a visiting professor in the Wireless Cellular Communication Program at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva Israel. Since April 2001 he has been an associate professor and in 2005 a full professor in the Department of Communication Systems Engineering. Dr. Blaunstein has published ten books two special chapters in handbooks on applied engineering and applied electrodynamics six manuals and over 190 articles in radio and optical physics communication and geophysics. His research interests include problems of radio and optical wave propagation diffraction reflection and scattering in various media (sub-soil medium terrestrial environments troposphere and ionosphere) for purposes of optical communication and radio and optical location aircraft mobile-satellite and terrestrial wireless communications and networking. Christos Christodoulou PhD is Associate Dean for Research Interim ECE Department Chair and Distinguished Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico. Mikhail Sergeev PhD is Dean of Faculty of Computer Systems and Programming Chair of Department of Computer Systems and Networks at Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation Saint-Petersburg Russia.