13 years in industry
(Avionics, Communications, Software)
14 years in education
3 years as a private consultant
13 years in industry
(Avionics, Communications, Software)
14 years in education
3 years as a private consultant
Dr. Russell has been at Iowa State University since August, 1984, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Communications and Signal Processing Research Group. Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa State, he was a Principal Engineer at King Radio Corporation, Olathe, Kansas, 1980-84. From 1976 to 1980, he was a Research and Development Engineer at Rockwell-Collins Avionics in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At Rockwell, Dr. Russell was a member of the initial design team that developed the high anti-jam NAVSTAR Global Positioning System User Equipment. From 1970 to 1976, he held various positions as a private consultant, an instructor at Iowa State, and a full-time member of the technical staff in the Physics Research Center at the University of Iowa. He was an RF design engineer at Collins Radio Company from 1966 to 1970. He received the BSEE degree in 1966 from Montana State University and the MSEE (1973) and PhDEE (1978) degrees from Iowa State.
His professional experience and interests are in the general areas of communication systems, digital signal processing, Global Positioning System, and RF design. He teaches courses in circuits, filters, communication systems theory, DSP, spread-spectrum, spectral analysis, and statistical communications theory. His current research interests are spread-spectrum and DSP techniques applied to radio communications and acoustics. He has also done research in image processing and digital filter design theory. His sponsored research has been with RCA/GE, Rockwell International, Texas Instruments, Center for NDE, and Center for Advanced Technology Development.
In his position as Principal Engineer and Lab Leader at King Radio Corporation, Olathe, Kansas, he worked on advanced navigation and communication system design, signal processing analysis, high-precision TCXO design and manufacturing, development of microprocessor support software, software configuration management, software QA, and software certification.
As a Senior Engineer V and Engineer IV in the Avionics Division of Rockwell-Collins, he played a key roll in the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System program. He developed the statistical theory and performance analysis of the acquisition algorithms for the high-antijam receiver design in the Phase-I GPS, the General Development Model (GDM). He also collaborated on the analysis and simulation of the tracking statistics. He was project engineer for receiver integration testing on the GDM. He led the Phase-IIA manpack red team and had critical responsibility for the product design. His expertise in antijam receiving system design was recognized in a monograph prepared for use by system designers. He was the first project manager of the Surface Vehicle Navigation System program with General Motors which was the first civil application of GPS at Rockwell.
While completing graduate school at ISU, he was a self-employed consulting engineer and was a full-time instructor in circuits and electronics in ISU's Engineering Technology Institute. Also, he worked full time for a year and a summer as a research engineer in the Physics Research Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa.
Early in his career Dr. Russell did RF circuit design as a design engineer in the Front-End Group of the Telecommunications Division at Collins Radio Corporation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He worked primarily on low-noise receiver filters, amplifiers, and frequency translators used in VHF and UHF applications such as aircraft transponders and the TACSATCOM program.
Dr. Russell is active in IEEE (SM) as a member of the Communications and Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics & Frequency Control Societies and is a past student branch advisor for the Central Iowa Section of IEEE. He is a member of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. He is also a member of Sigma Xi and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Iowa.
Dr. Russell is a native of Idaho and Montana. He was born in Lewiston, Idaho and spent his growing years at Lewiston, Weippe, Orofino, Lochsa Lodge (Powell), the Bitter Root Valley, and White Sulphur Springs, Montana.