Dr. Sergio Franco is a professor of Electrical Engineering at San Francisco State University. He was born in Friuli, Italy, and earned his Ph.D from the university of Illinois at Urbana-champaign. Prior to becoming professor, Dr. Sergio had extensive industrial experience and has worked and published in such diverse areas as solid state physics, electronic music, pattern recognition, IC design,and medical, consumer and automotive electronics. Professor Sergio is also the author of the eElectric Circuit Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, 1995. In addition to teaching, Professor Sergio consults for industry.