Electrical Engineering

Harry B. Smith, a former Westinghouse Electric Corp. executive who was known as the "father of pulse-Doppler radar," died Friday of a stroke at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 86. Mr. Smith helped develop the radar system for high-altitude surveillance aircraft before becoming president of the Defense and Electronics Center of Westinghouse, now Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems in Linthicum. "He was a great leader and a down-to-earth individual, and his work had a most significant impact on our business," said James F. Pitts, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman.

Spurred by a Senate panel, the Navy's top watchdog is investigating whether Naval Academy officials mishandled the school's biggest cheating scandal in two decades.Agents from the Office of the Naval Inspector General came to Annapolis last week and reviewed records from the scandal that has rocked the academy for the past four months. The Pentagon's inspector general will oversee the probe requested by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Perry.Twenty-eight midshipmen were accused in February of passing around copies of the fall final exam for Electrical Engineering 311, one of the toughest required courses.

Tao-Chang Yu, whose violin has taken him across three continents, almost became an electrical engineer. "The moment I decided this was what I wanted to do was after my father passed away when I was 19," Yu said. He made the right decision. On Saturday night, the sassy notes of "Carmen Fantasy" leapt off the strings of Yu's violin, captivating listeners and earning him the first-place $5,000 Rising Star Award at Howard County Arts Council's Celebration of the Arts. Yu said his father, a musician, conductor, and teacher, helped establish a school for musically gifted children in his native Taiwan.

UMCP engineering enrollment rising with high ranking As former dean of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, I have been interested in the debate over whether University of Maryland, Baltimore County should be allowed to offer an undergraduate electrical engineering degree over the objections of Morgan State University. While I do not wish to take sides either way in the debate itself, I am concerned about some statements by participants that misrepresent the status of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Matthew Steeple is making Morgan State assistant coach Bubba Green revise some of his recruiting guidelines."In the past, I liked my inside linemen to have wrestled," says Green. "It provides another dimension for their development, and they are usually quicker, more agile than the others. Now, with Matt, I'm going to have look for linemen who have wrestled and played lacrosse."Those were Steeple's athletic outlets at Northern High School, where he made the Maryland Scholastic Association All-Star team as a football lineman, and the All-MSA C Conference team as a lacrosse attackman.

The cutting edge of electronics technology has come to Howard County in the form of a unique classroom/laboratory facility started by Johns Hopkins' engineering school.Like programs offered at other institutions, Dorsey Center on Route 176 offers working engineers a chance to learn the newest theories in the design of microwave chips.But unlike other microwave programs, students there also have a chance to apply those theories by following through. They design and test chips with the latest computer-aided design software and testing equipment.

ONE WAY to end the debate about affirmative action in higher education would be to increase the pool of qualified black applicants to highly selective colleges and universities that require superior SAT scores. Building the math skills of African-American students might be one way to do that. But black leaders - either elected or the heads of various African-American organizations - don't really want that debate to end. It's easier to get re-elected, or to keep members, by bashing Republicans on the issue of affirmative action.

WESTMINSTER -- What do electrical engineering and otolaryngology have in common? Westminster's newest otolaryngologist, Dr. Jed S. Rosen.Dr. Rosen, who recently opened an office in the Billingslea Building, is a former electrical engineer turned otolaryngologist.Now specializing in treating diseases of the ear, nose and throat, including head and neck surgery, Dr. Rosen has been able to use skills he learned as an engineer in his medical career."The problem-solving technologies are identical," said Dr. Rosen, who spent nearly 10 years as a microwave design engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Joseph A. SciulliFounded own companyA Mass of Christian burial for Joseph A. Sciulli, who founded and headed a company that makes testing instruments for communications equipment, will be offered at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Rockville.Mr. Sciulli died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Germantown. He was 50.He was president of Telecommunications Techniques Corp. in Germantown, which he started in 1974. Five years later, it was acquired by the Dynatech Corp., and he became a vice president and divisional executive of Dynatech.

Myrtle E. Pasler, 95, formerly of BaltimoreMyrtle E. Pasler, a Baltimore native who grew up in the Clifton Park area, died of influenza Friday at her home in Mantua, N.J. She was 95.The former Myrtle E. Brown graduated from Strayer Business College in 1916 and worked at the old Morris Plan Bank for 20 years.Mrs. Pasler moved with her husband, Rudolph Pasler, to Philadelphia in 1936 and became a homemaker.Services will be private.Her husband died earlier. Surviving are a son, Rudolph Pasler of Ocean City, N.J.; and two sisters, Thelma Fitzgerald and Naomi Wiggman, both of Bel Air.Herbert M. Neustadt, 81, taught at Naval AcademyHerbert M. Neustadt, a retired professor of electrical engineering at the Naval Academy who held patents in the development of electronic musical instruments, died of Parkinson's disease March 15 at his Annapolis home.