Michael M. Cirovic, Professor, Electrical
Engineering since 1968
MS Electrical Engineering, New York
University, 1968
BS Electrical Engineering, New York
University, 1965
Office: 20-200; Tel. (805) 756-2781
E-mail: mcirovic@calpoly.edu
I received the BS and MS degrees in
Electrical Engineering at New York University. I joined the Cal Poly faculty in
1968, and served as department head in 1980 and 1981 and have served as
Department Chair from 2001 through 2007.
My experience involves serving as Director of
Research and Development for Victor Corporation, Director of Advanced
Development for Sirius Systems Technologies, Director of Testing and
Development for Tandon Corporation, vice-president, one of the co-founders and
Director of Research and Development for CCG Labs, Inc., President and one of
the co-founders of CLAS Inc., Consulting Engineer for cryogenic controls and
solar energy research, Engineer for General Cable Corporation. I am currently
President and founder of CK Associates, a consultancy that specializes in
custom software development.
Among my publications are six textbooks:
- Basic Electronics:
Devices, Circuits and Systems (1st Ed.) ,
Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Semiconductors: Physics,
Devices, and Circuits, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Handbook of
Semiconductor Memories, Reston Publishing, Reston, Virginia.
- Basic Electronics:
Devices, Circuits and Systems (2nd Ed.), Reston
Publishing, Reston, Virginia.
- Integrated Circuits
User's Handbook, Reston Publishing, Reston, Virginia.
- Basic Electronics:
Devices, Circuits and Systems (3rd Ed.), Reston
Publishing, Reston, Virginia (co-authored).
I have also served as consulting and series editor for three publishers: Prentice-Hall, Reston and Brooks-Cole.
I believe that I am recognized as a leading
Engineering educator having received both local and national teaching awards: I
received the American Society for Engineering Education Dow Young Faculty Award
in 1977, the Cal Poly College of Engineering TRW Excellence in Teaching Award
in 1995, and am a seven time recipient of the Cal Poly EE Department’s Most
Inspirational Professor Award (1970, 1976, 1986, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996).
I have been active in consulting, most
recently in implementing a distributed database for a local company as well as
a wireless network of 5 computers for acquiring and sharing data on registrants
(upwards of 6000) for a commercial show, as well as printing the registration
badges including a PDF417 2D barcode containing all pertinent information on
the registrant. Also, I recently completed the Homeless Tracking System – a
distributed database on the homeless now in use by 6 agencies in SLO County, a
project in which Computerland of SLO was a subcontractor.
I have been a consultant for CRC Press, Inc.
for over 8 years, where I developed eight commercial scientific software
applications:
- Properties
of Organic Compounds (Versions 3.1, 4.0, 5.0)
- Properties
of Solvents
- Properties
of Inorganic Compounds
- Properties
of Pesticides
- Properties
of Organic Compounds, Personal Edition
- Properties
of Hazardous Materials.
In the work for CRC Press, I also developed
custom software for producing camera-ready copies for publishing Data On
Organic Compounds (a work encompassing 7 volumes and almost 7000 pages) and
a number of derivative works: Names, Synonyms and Structures of Organic
Compounds and Data On Common Organic Compounds. I also
programmatically produced the publication pages for the Handbook of Organic
Solvents, Handbook of Pesticides and the Handbook of Inorganic
Compounds and portions of the 72nd edition of the CRC
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, all for CRC Press.
My long standing area of interest is the
creative solution of problems; be they the design of electronic circuits and
systems or the application of computer techniques to publishing and education
specifically. I am also interested in any general problems that may be amenable
to computer technologies and innovative techniques.