Bill's
Main Areas of Professional Interest:
Originally, my primary area of interest was the application of electronic
circuitry to problems of data acquisition, signal processing, and the
control of systems and processes. In the more recent years, however, the
emergence of analog and digital integrated circuits and particularly the
integrated circuit microprocessor has had a profound effect on the
possibilities and complexities of feasible circuit systems. As a result,
professional interests are divided among:
- The application of microprocessor-based systems to problems with
requirements for responses within a real-time budget.
- The design of analog and digital circuitry necessary to connect or
interface microprocessor-based systems to other system components or to
signals from the outside world.
- The application of processor-to-processor communication links
(networks) as a means to distribute the workload of a multiprocessor
system. Networking is viewed as a means both to increase computational
performance and to improve reliability through redundancy and
self-checking.
- The application of high level programming languages both to the
programming of real-time systems and to the modeling, simulation and
analysis of such systems. (Activities in this area prior to 1990 focused
primarily on the Ada language. Since that time, the focus has been on
the C and C++ languages.)
Professional
Organizations:
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- 2000 - Chair, Section Development Committee
- 1999 - S-PAC Support Coordinator for Region 2, IEEE-USA SPAC
(Student Professional Awareness Committee)
- 1994 - 1998 S-PAC Coordinator for Region 2, IEEE-USA SPAC
(Student Professional Awareness Committee)
- 1996 - 1997 Chairman, Cleveland Section
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Member, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Honors
and Awards:
IEEE Cleveland Section Engineer of the Year, January 2000.
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, May 2000.
Recent Publications:
Sellars, F. H., J. P. Martin, W. L. Schultz, List Control Systems. Fall
Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,
Ottawa, Canada, October 1997.
Schultz, W. L., W. A. McCloy, R. G. Allan, F. H. Sellars, Application of
Roll Damping Systems to Search and Rescue Vessels. The 10th Ship Control
Systems Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, October 1993.
Kallstrom, C. G., W. L. Schultz, An Integrated Rudder Control System for
Roll Damping and Course Maintenance. The 9th Ship Control Systems
Symposium, Bethesda, Maryland, September 1990.
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