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Hi! My name is Mike Stanley, and I am the publisher of EE HomePage.com. Let me tell you a little bit about myself... I should begin by noting that this is not my day job. I've been a practicing engineer for 28 years and still work for a major manufacturer during the day.

Over the years, I've worked as a transistor circuit designer, a CAD engineer, an RTL designer and a systems engineer. I've managed multinational design teams and worked as an individual engineer, moving back and forth between 1st level management and hands-on engineering several times (I enjoy both). I've written production test programs, spent lots of time in the lab and visited customers in North America, Europe and Japan. I am listed as inventor on a couple of patents and have published articles in one or two not-so-prestigous publications. I'm lucky in that I've been able to try my hand at many things and make friends all over the world. Because of all this, I know the electronics business, and I know Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

The electronics business has undergone a major shift over the last 7 or 8 years. A lot of engineering work has moved from developed to developing economies. Engineers in all regions are still trying to define their roles and particular value proposition.

That's why this site has been created. I want to give Electrical and Electronics Engineers a place to go where the tools and information they need has been pre-sorted and arranged for their use. My goal is to enable you to find the information you need, quickly, and without a lot of searching.

This site's focus is on education and career development. I'm continually searching the web for tools and data to make my job easier, expand my skillset, and generally make myself more valuable to my employer. A lot of it ends up on this site. If you come across something you think others will find useful, please take a minute to send me a note at admin@eehomepage.com. I'll be happy to pass along your suggestions to other readers of EE HomePage.com.

You may have noticed that a number of pages in this site (including this one) use a tabbed interface. Think of the navigation bar on the left as one dimension of your search, and the tabs as a second. The idea is to get you to the data you need quickly.

Home: This is where we'll post topical subjects and new material.

About Us: That's where you are right now.

Favorites: It's easy to get overwhelmed by the indexes and Tools/References/Organizations page. Our "Favorites" page gives you easy access to some of our favorite materials. It's an easy way to start learning how to navigate the site.

Navigation: Much of the content on this site is organized on the Tools, Organizations and References pages. These each contain a table, wherein every row describes a single resource available to you. Click on [Customize View] in the table header to filter results, change sort fields or number of matches displayed per page. Click on any keyword in the keywords field and you will be taken to a page which summarizes related content. This is a great way to surf the EE HomePage.com databases.

Research: Not everyone is a born researcher. If you're a bit rusty using the web to find materials, this is a good place to start.

Career: Contains some tips on networking, determining what your compensation should be, and locating that next job.

News: News headlines from a number of EE-related publications. These are updated daily.

Links: Similar in format to our Favorites page, however links are more "general", including pointers to other EE-related sites and relevant use groups.

Legal Stuff: Contains our privacy policy and the usual disclaimers.

Contact Us: The "Contact Us" navigation button assumes that you have an email client installed on your machine. Alternately you can simply email us at admin @ eehomepage.com. We welcome your email suggestions for additions to the databases and/or new site features!

Search: The "Search" page allows you to search EE HomePage databases for any keyword or phrase. The "Query text" feature at work here is the same used to crosslink the "Keywords" field in the tables mentioned above. We recommend you use the Google site search feature (on the same page) for full text search.

Indexes: We've also made both keyword and author indexes available to you. This is a great way to browse by topic. Again, click on any bulleted item in the index to see a page of related content. Alternately, you can go directly to any of the specific references listed in the index.

This site is highly automated. On the server side, we utilize XML and mySQL databases, Apache server-side-includes (SSIs), RSS news feeds, Perl and PHP. On the client side, we make use of Javascript for keeping track of tab settings, automating graphics and enabling the dynamic look and feel of the site by twiddling with CSS (cascading style sheet) settings in the HTML. None of this do you need to know to make use of the site. But since you are presumably a student, engineer or educator, we thought you would be interested.

If you are a web master and like our site, please assist other EEs by providing a link from your page to EE HomePage.com. We've provided suggested links on our Relations page.

That's it for now. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for site content and form

Best regards,

-EE HomePage.com-

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a mechanism used by the media to distribute news items to others on the web. Individual users can use a news reader, or "aggregator" to capture and present RSS feeds from a number of sources for easy access. Think of it as your own private newspaper, customized to your specific interests.

We're adding new resources to the EE HomePage.com databases on a regular basis. Every week or two, we'll post an update which lists some of the best EE-related resources we've found on the web. Most of these are free, and they are always focused on educational and career development items for electrical engineers.

You can access our feed using a variety of methods:

Reader	Access Method
Google's Reader & Home Page
Click on Yahoo! Alerts	to configure Yahoo! Alerts to notify you via email when new postings occur.
my AOL
RSS Reader My Yahoo! Open Directory Project RSS Readers or any other RSS News Reader	Right click and "Copy Link Location" on , then paste into the "XML Path" field of your favorite reader.

The last line in the table reflects the fact that almost any reader can access our feed via URL: http://www.eehomepage.com/cgi-bin/database_feed.xml.

Google Translations Although EE HomePage.com originates from, and is hosted in the United States, we hope to reach a world-wide audience. You may have noticed that we recently experimented with the new language translation features from Google. Initial feedback indicates the translations aren't quite ready for primetime, so we've removed them from most of our pages. But we have links to translated pages here should you wish to experiment with the feature. And please do drop us an email using the "Contact Us" feature on the left side of this page to let us know how Google is progressing. To try any of ten other languages, simply click on the flag most closely associated with that particular language. We apologize in advance for anyone whose flag does NOT appear above. But with limited space, multilingual nationalities, and inconsistent browser font sets, this was the best compromise we could reach. If you would like to know more about Google's language translation tools, please visit http://www.google.com/language_tools. Also, if you have a web site of your own, perhaps we can spare you some research time. Please feel free to copy and modify our translation code. And if you need flag icons, we recommend http://www.jfitz.com/flags.

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