Dr. Peter Swaszek is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He teaches a wide variety of courses, including digital systems, communications and controls, image processing, and stochastic processes. His research interests are in signal processing with a focus on digital communications and electronic navigation systems (including Loran and DGPS) and he is the author/co-author of almost 150 technical papers/presentations. Prof. Swaszek spent the spring 2001 semester and the 2007-2008 academic year on sabbatical at the US Coast Guard Academy focusing on Loran navigation and communications.