A Pioneer of Electrical Engineering

AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Department of Electrical Engineering

Jens Glad Balchen: A Norwegian Pioneer in Engineering Cybernetics

This paper tells the story of Jens Glad Balchen (1926-2009), a Norwegian research scientist and engineer who is widely regarded as the father of Engineering Cybernetics in Norway. In 1954, he founded what would later become the Department of Automatic Control at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. This name was changed to the Department of Engineering Cybernetics in 1972 to refl...

Herman P. Schwan: a scientist and pioneer in biomedical engineering.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

With the increasing need to incorporate more complex mixed-signal controller for switched mode power supplies, CMOS compatibility becomes a very important consideration for monolithic DC-DC converters. This paper examines the different power output stage designs and identifies the key device characteristics such as onresistance, gate capacitance, switching speed that ensure optimized power conv...

Electroncs and Electrical Engineering

High speed is the main feature of the modern communications. The number of users as well as the range of data and complexity of networks are correlated. In many kinds of equipment, it is important to produce and readily control accurate waveforms of various frequencies and profiles. Many applications in electronics today involve gathering and decoding data for digital signal processing, analog ...