Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

Charles K. Alexander Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Washkewicz College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. He was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cleveland State University from 2002 until 2018. He was the director of The Center for Research in Electronics and Aerospace Technology (CREATE) from 2004 until 2018. From 2002 until 2006 he was Dean of the Fenn College of Engineering. He has held the position of dean of engineering at Cleveland State University, California State University, Northridge, and Temple University (acting dean for six years). He has held the position of department chair at Temple University and Tennessee Technological University. He has held the position of Stocker Visiting Professor (an endowed chair) at Ohio University. He has held faculty status at all of the before mentioned named universities. Matthew N. O. Sadiku received his B.Sc. degree in 1978 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From 1984 to 1988, he was an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, where he did graduate work in computer science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he became a full professor. From 2000 to 2002, he was with Lucent/Avaya, Holmdel, NJ, as a system engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems, Los Angeles, CA, as a senior scientist. He is presently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX. He is the author of over 660 professional papers and over 80 books including “Elements of Electromagnetics” (Oxford University Press, 7th ed., 2018), Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (McGraw-Hill, now in 7th edition, with C. Alexander), Computational Electromagnetics with MATLAB (CRC, 4th ed., 2019), and Principles of Modern Communication Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with S. O. Agbo). In addition to the engineering books, he has written Christian books including Secrets of Successful Marriages, How to Discover God’s Will for Your Life, and commentaries on all the books of the New Testament Bible. Some of his books have been translated into French, Korean, Chinese (and Chinese Long Form in Taiwan), Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.