Jacob Shekel, Sc.D.

Jacob Shekel, Sc.D. Visiting Professor Office: 204B Forsyth Phone: (617) 373-2795 Fax: (617) 373-8970 shekel@ece.neu.edu

Academic positions:

University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (1970-1972)

Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,

Director of Office of Undergraduate Studies,

Director of Computer Facility for the College of Engineering.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (1973-1978)

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Electrical Engineering.

Industrial Employment:

Spencer Kennedy Laboratories, Boston, MA.

Jerrold Electronics Corp., Horsham, PA.

American Science & Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Vice President of Engineering.

Affiliations:

Life Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Technical Activities:

Administrative Committee of the Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Technical committees of the IEEE.
Technical committees of the National Cable TV Association (NCTA).
CTAC Advisory Committee to the FCC.
Chairman of Subcommittee 12G, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

Special Recognition:

Cable TV Pioneer By the Cable Television Industry

Selected Publications:

Matrix Representation of Transistor Circuits, Proceedings IRE, Dec 1952.
The Gyrator as a 3-Terminal Network Element, Proceedings IRE, Aug 1953.
Matrix Analysis of Multi-Terminal Transducers, Proceedings IRE, May 1954.
Reciprocity Relations in Active 3-Terminal Transducers, Proceedings IRE, Aug 1954.
Two Network Theorems Concerning Change of Voltage Reference Terminal, Proceedings IRE, July 1954.
Energy Relations in Multi-Terminal Transducers, IRE Trans. on Circuit Theory, Sep 1955.
Amplifier Specification and System Performance, NCTA Annual Convention, July 1965.
The CATV Head-End, IEEE International Communications Conference, June 1966.
Color Distortion in CATV Systems, View, June 1966.
Output Capability and Gain in CATV Amplifiers, TV and Communications, January 1967.
Multipath Transmission in Cable TV Systems, Telephony, March 1967.
Measurement of Structural Return Loss, Cablecasting and Educational Television, Feb 1968.
How to Design a Computer-Aided Design Program, IEEE International Convention, March 1970.
Frequency Band Assignments Free of Second-Order Beat Interference, Proceedings IEEE, July 1970.
On Transformation Groups and Equivalent Networks, chapter in book "Aspects of Network and System Theory", R. E. Kalman and N. DeClaris (Editors); Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
On the Analysis of Scattering Networks, 10th Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory, Oct 1972.
Optimal Source Location to Feed a Lossy Distribution Tree, IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, May 1973.
On the Realities of Non-Linear Distortion in CATV Amplifiers, Annual NCTA Convention, June 1973.
The Junction Matrix in the Analysis of Scattering Networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, January 1974.
The Design of Cascaded-Amplifier Transmission Systems, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Dec 1974.
Nonlinear Problems in the Design of Cable-Powered Distribution Networks, IEEE Transactions on Cable Television, Oct 1976.
Load Management Using Two-Way Power Line Carrier Communication, 34-th Annual Power Distribution Conference, Oct 1981.
A Mathematical Model for Data Acquisition by Distribution Power Line Carrier, IEEE/PES Summer Meeting, July 1981.
Analysis of Distribution Power Line Carrier Propagation by Transfer Impedance, IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, July 1982.
Hardware/Firmware Considerations for Integrating Load Management Into System Operations, IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Nov 1986.

Last Updated September 23, 1997

Rajiv Shridhar