Ed Jackson has joined the Faculty of Engineering as the Resident Senior Electronics Engineer and Administrator of the Morse Teaching Center, effective March 8, 1999. During his 25 years in industry, Mr. Jackson had responsibility as group leader and senior project engineer for software, hardware, and mechanical design in medical electronics products and in a wide range of factory automation. He holds several patents for medical instruments, including for thermometers and infusion pumps.

In MTC Ed's major responsibilities are:

• Evolving our instrumentation base by selecting new equipment for purchase as well as designing and building special circuit boards and fixtures that customize the lab bench instrumentation to particular tasks under LabVIEW.

• Supporting students, graduate teaching assistants and EE faculty in teaching lab related circuit design issues, the selection of components or appropriate substitutes, and making design and equipment procedural suggestions. This is particularly important in the area of special projects for which Yale Engineering is noted.

• Evolution of the information resources on our MTC Web site.

• Computer Software and Hardware--evaluation and installation of new standard and special purpose software, upgrading older computer equipment to new standards, addition of special computer capabilities (cards, mics, etc.), and coordinating general maintainance.

• Evolution and inventory of our recommended parts selections

In addition to these duties, Ed will follow Lou Berman's tradition of performing a plethora of often unnoticed duties such as advising students and faculty colleagues in the Faculty of Engineering on a wide variety of project and equipment issues. We are very fortunate in the depth of experience he brings to all such work in MTC.