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Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

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Program Faculty

William Barott, assistant professor, Ph.D.
Dr. Barott has expertise in RF systems and antenna design, specifically in the application of evolutionary algorithms to the design of application-specific antennas, and has presented numerous papers on related subjects.  Currently, he is working with the SETI Institute on the development of the real-time beamformer for the Allen Telescope Array.

Brian Butka, associate professor, Ph.D.
Dr. Butka has over 20 years of mixed signal circuit design and test experience. Dr. Butka has 6 patents ranging from DLL design and impedance matching output circuits to source synchronous output testing. Before joining the Embry-Riddle faculty Dr. Butka was a member of technical staff working in the CTO office at Integrated Device Technology, Inc.

Ilteris Demirkiran, associate professor, Ph.D
Dr. Demirkiran's current research interests are weak signal detection, nonlinearities, and spread spectrum systems. Dr. Demirkiran has presented various research papers on these subjects around the world.

Hamilton (Tony) Hagar, associate professor, Ph.D.
Dr. Hagar has 30 years' experience in planning, analysis, and operations of aerospace and defense systems. He was the Chief Space Technologist for Veda (Veridian) Corporation and then a successful independent consultant before joining the Embry-Riddle faculty.

Albert Helfrick, department chair P.E., Ph.D.
Dr. Helfrick has over 40 years experience in R and D, electronic design, and engineering management. He is the author of 12 texts covering communications, electrical measurement, and avionics. He was an adjunct professor since 1969 teaching mathematics, physics, and engineering. He currently teaches an avionics course world-wide. He has been an expert witness in several high-profile cases and has testified before Congress. Before joining ERAU he had a small consulting firm.

Jianhua Liu, associate professor, Ph.D.
Dr. Liu worked at the Communications, Telemetry and Telecontrol Research Institute, Shijiazhuang, China. He was also involved in research Tsinghua University and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Liu's research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and avionics.

Thomas Yang, assistant professor, Ph.D.
Dr. Yang's interests are in adaptive signal processing, wireless transceiver design, biometrics and biomedical signal processing. Dr. Yang has been involved in research with several large corporations in the areas of signal processing.