WILLIAM H. HAYT, Jr., received his B.S. and M.S. at Purdue University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. After spending four years in industry, Professor Hayt joined the faculty of Purdue University, where he served as Professor and Head of the School of Electrical Engineering, and as Professor Emeritus after retiring in 1986. Besides Engineering Circuit Analysis, Professor Hayt authored three other texts, including Engineering Electromagnetics, now in its eighth edition with McGraw-Hill. Professor Hayt’s professional society memberships included Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Sigma Delta Chi, Fellow of IEEE, ASEE, and NAEB. While at Purdue, he received numerous teaching awards, including the university’s Best Teacher Award. He is also listed in Purdue’s Book of Great Teachers, a permanent wall display in the Purdue Memorial Union, dedicated on April 23, 1999. The book bears the names of the inaugural group of 225 faculty members, past and present, who have devoted their lives to excellence in teaching and scholarship. They were chosen by their students and their peers as Purdue’s finest educators.

JACK E. KEMMERLY received his B.S. magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America, M.S. from University of Denver, and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Professor Kemmerly first taught at Purdue University and later worked as principal engineer at the Aeronutronic Division of Ford Motor Company. He then joined California State University, Fullerton, where he served as Professor, Chairman of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Chairman of the Engineering Division, and Professor Emeritus. Professor Kemmerly’s professional society memberships included Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, ASEE, and IEEE (Senior Member). His pursuits outside of academe included being an officer in the Little League and a scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts.

STEVEN M. DURBIN received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Subsequently, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Florida State University and Florida A&M University before joining the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2000. Since August 2010, he has been with the University at Buffalo, The State University of NewYork, where he holds a joint appointment between the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics. His teaching interests include circuits, electronics, electromagnetics, solid-state electronics and nanotechnology. His research interests are primarily concerned with the development of new semiconductor materials—in particular those based on oxide and nitride compounds—as well as novel optoelectronic device structures. He is a founding principal investigator of the MacDiarmid Institute forAdvanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a New Zealand National Centre of Research Excellence, and coauthor of over 100 technical publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electron Devices Society, the Materials Research Society, the AVS (formerly the American Vacuum Society), the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of New Zealand.