Dr. Thomas served for more than twenty-six years in the United States Air Force, retiring with the grade of Brigadier General. He served as an engineer at Wright Air Develoment Center from 1953-1957. From 1959-1979 he was with the Air Force Academy, first as a faculty member in the Department of Astronautics and then as a Professor and Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering. After his career with the Air Force, he continued to work as an engineer for several different companies. From 1979-1982, he was with Kaman Sciences Corporation working in EMP hardened military systems. From 1982-1984, he worked as a Senior Scientist with Mission Research Corporation. From 1984-1985, he was a System engineering Manager at the Motorola Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, AZ and was responsible for defining the system level reliability and signal processing performance requirements for the baseband processor for the NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite Program. In 1985, he founded TCS in Scottsdale, AZ specializing in system engineering of military electronic systems. He retired in 1997 and continues to work in ABET accreditation and textbook writing.
EDUCATION
PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1959
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, 1953
B.S. Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State
University, 1952
B.S. Agricultural Engineering, New Mexico State
University, 1961
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ABET program evaluator since 1972.
Member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (1980-1985)
Member of the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities
Named Fellow of ABET, 1972
Technical Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
IEEE delegate to the Popov Society Congress, Moscow, USSR (1977)
IEEE Educational Activities Board (1981-1983)
IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities (CEAA) (1995-present)
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