RIT Engineering Professors Co-Author Communication Engineering Textbook

Sohail Dianat and Raghuveer Rao, professors of electrical engineering in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, have co-written Basics of Code Division Multiple Access, a tutorial text in communication engineering, published by the International Society for Optical Engineering.

Code division multiple access, or CDMA, is an enabling technique for the simultaneous transmission and reception of data over a shared channel. Primarily associated with wireless cellular communication, CDMA is also being considered for optical channels. The text, covering CDMA fundamentals, targets readers with a basic background in electrical or optical engineering.

Dianat, of Pittsford, joined the RIT faculty in 1981. Rao, also of Pittsford, has been on the RIT faculty since 1987. Rao served as the James E. Gleason Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1999 to 2002, and he previously co-wrote Wavelet Transforms: Introduction to Theory and Applications.

Note: RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering is among the nation's top-ranked engineering colleges. The college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in applied statistics, engineering science, and computer, electrical, industrial and systems, mechanical, and microelectronic engineering and a doctoral degree in microsystems engineering. RIT was the first university to offer undergraduate degrees in microelectronic and software engineering. Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls 15,300 students in more than 340 undergraduate and graduate programs. RIT has one of the nation's oldest and largest cooperative education programs.