Electronic Circuits and Applications

by Stephen D. Senturia

Provides a broad, thorough exposure to practical electronics, enabling the student to make immediate use of electronic circuits and instruments in laboratory and research work. Integrates ideal networks, real devices and their models throughout and shows the application of electronics to engineering and scientific signal-processing problems.

636 pages, Hardcover

First published January 16, 1975

About the author

After a 36 year career as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I am now writing fiction. My first novel, One Man's Purpose, deals with Martin Quint, himself a Professor at the fictional Cambridge Technology Institute, and is based on my personal experiences as a professor and educator.

During my long career, I have written several textbooks, hundreds of scientific papers, quite a few patents, started two companies, co-edited two journals and two books series, and taught, literally, thousands of students. Now I'm writing stories about the high-tech academic life, and I'm having a blast. I also run blog entitled
Education as Conversation, part reminiscence over my career, and part commentary on issues of online education.

In addition to my writing and blogging, I am a clarinetist. My trio, Giocoso, performs chamber music in the Boston area from time to time. And my wife Peg and I are active in the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, a group of 550 retirees who teach 12-week seminar classes to each other. My most recent focus has been on teaching geology, a hobby of mine since my teenage years.

We live in Brookline, MA, have three wonderful children and seven equally wonderful grandchildren.