1. Name and Academic Rank:

• Dennis A. Silage
• Professor , Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Full-time

2. Degrees with fields, institution and date:

• BSEE, Northeastern University, 1969.
• MSEE, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1975.

3. Number of years of service on this faculty:

• 09/1984 – 08/1988: Associate Professor
• 09/1988 – Present: Professor

4. Other Related Experience:

· 09/1988 – Present: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University

· 09/1985 – 08/1993: Visiting Scientist, Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

· 09/1984 – 08/1988: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Temple University

· 09/1984 – 08/1989: Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

· 09/1980 – 08/1984: Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

· 09/1977 – 08/1987: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Temple University

· 09/1976 – 08/1980: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

5. Consulting, Patents, Copyrights:

• 09/1993 – 10/2003: Conrad Technologies, Paoli, PA
• 03/1994 – Present: Naval Air Warfare Center, Pawtuxet River, MD
• 09/2002 – 08/2008: The Boeing Corporation, Integrated Defense Systems, Essington, PA
• 03/2010 – Present: MESH, Inc., Oxford, PA

6. States in which registered:

None

7. Principle publications in the last five years:

• D. Silage, “Teaching Digital Communications in a Wireless World: Who Needs Equations?” Proc. ASEE, 1222-1228, 2006.
• D. Silage, Fine Grained FPGA Architectures for MIMO. Proc. COMMDAT (IEEE/CS/SP): 23:245-252, 2006.

• D. Silage, “Digital Communication Systems using SystemVue”, Thomson Delmar, Clifton Park, NY, 2006.
• D. Silage and K. Yelamanchili, “Simulation of Fast Fading Channels in Communication Systems

Education”, Proc. COMMDAT (IEEE/CS/SP): 28:13-25, 2007.

• R. Esposito., J. Mountney, L. Bai, and D. Silage, “Parallel Architecture Implementation of a

Reliable (k, n) Image Sharing Scheme. Proc.”, ICPADS (IEEE/CS): 14:221-225, 2008.

• R. Esposito and D. Silage, “Single MAP Decoder for Turbo Decoding Implemented on a Fine Grained FPGA.”, IEEE Sarnoff Conference, 37:304-310, 2008.
• D. Silage, “Embedded Design in Verilog Using Programmable Gate Arrays”, Bookstand Publishing, Houston, TX, 2008.
• L. Colavito, and D. Silage, “Incremental PGA Architecture for STBC MIMO Decoding”, IEEE Sarnoff Conference, 38:189-195, 2009.
• L. Colavito, and D. Silage, “Efficient PGA LFSR Implementation Whitens Pseudorandom Numbers”, Proc. RECCOM (IEEE/CS): 15:109-114, 2009.
• D. Silage, “Digital Communication Systems using MATLAB and Simulink”, Bookstand Publishing, Houston, TX, 2009.

8. Scientific and Professional Societies of which a member:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): S 1965, M 1969, SM 1983
• Etta Kappa Nu (HKN), 1967 – Present
• Tau Beta Pi, 1967 – Present
• Phi Kappa Phi, 1969 – Present
• Sigma Xi, 1987 – Present

9. Honors and awards:

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1983
• ASEE Zone I, Outstanding Campus Representative, 1996
• Temple University, College of Engineering, Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award, 2000
• American Radio Relay League, Atlantic Division, Technical Achievement Award, 2001
• ASEE Middle Atlantic Section, Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
• Temple University, College of Engineering, Outstanding Service Award, 2007
• ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007

10. Institutional and professional service in last five years:

Institutional:

• Temple University, Graduate Board, Fellowship Subcommittee, 2007 – Present
• Temple University, Faculty Senate Research Policy and Procedure Committee, 2007 – Present
• Departmental ABET Coordinator, 2005 – 2009

Professional:

• ASEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, Chair 2007 – 2008, Executive Committee 2005 – Present
• ABET, PEV Electrical Engineering, PEV Computer Engineering, 2005 – Present

11. Professional development activities in the last five years

• IEEE Philadelphia Section Workshop Presenter, Embedded System Design Using FPGAs, 2008
• ASEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Workshop Presenter, Embedded System Design Using FPGAs, 2009
• IEEE Philadelphia Section Workshop Presenter, Digital Communication System Simulation, 2009
• ASEE, Middle Atlantic Section Workshop Presenter, Digital Communication System Simulation, 2010

12. Percentage of time available for research or scholarly activities:

100%

Percentage of time committed to the program:

100%