Albert Helfrick
`2925 Betty Drive
`Deland, FL 32720
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`Chief Engineer of radio stations WFMU, WKDN, WKDN-FM, WRTI, WRTI-FM
`U. S. Army Signal Corps, Viet Nam
`Kearfott division of Singer Corp., Research Engineer
`Kay Elemetrics, Senior Engineer
`Avionics division of Cessna Aircraft, Senior Project Engineer
`Dowty RFL Industries, Principal Engineer
`Tel-Instrument Electronics, Director of Engineering
`Self employed consulting engineer
`Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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`Associate Professor of Avionics
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`Professor of Avionics
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`Chair: Mechanical, Civil and Engineering Sciences
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`Chair: Electrical and Systems Engineering
`ERAU, Professor, Electrical Engineering
`ERAU, Professor Emeritus
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`Professional Experience
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`1963 – 69
`1969 – 71
`1971 – 74
`1974 – 77
`1977 – 84
`1984 – 88
`1988 – 90
`1988 – 92
`1992 – 2010
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`2010 - 2015
`2015 -
`Consulting
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`Expert Witness: Wrongful Death, Aircraft Crash, 2012-2013
`Expert Witness: Patent Infringement Involving Avionics Systems: 2009 – 2010
`Expert Witness: Patent Infringement Involving Avionics Systems: 2006 – 2009;
`Expert Witness: Deceptive Advertising of Consumer Electronic Item: 2008
`Testified before the House Subcommittee on Aviation on matters related to portable
`electronic devices carried aboard aircraft, Washington D.C. July 2000
`Expert Witness: Theft of Intellectual Property: 1990
`Various design projects involving fire alarm systems, communications systems, consumer
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`Education
`B. S., Physics, Upsala College, NJ, 1969
`M.S., Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1972
`Ph.D., Applied Science, Clayton Univ., 1988
`Scholarly and Professional Activity
`Text Books
`• Principles of Avionics, 8th Ed. 2013
`• The Role of Electronics in the Evolution of Flight, Texas A and M University Press, 2004
`• Principles of Avionics, Avionics Communications Inc., Special Centennial Edition, 2002
`• Principles of Avionics, Avionics Communications, Inc. 2000
`• Avionics Test Equipment Handbook and Directory, Avionics Communications Inc., 1997.
`• Practical Aircraft Electronics Systems, Prentice Hall, 1995.
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`Instrumentacao Electronica Moderna e Technicas de Medicao, Portugese Translation of Modern
`Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques; Prentice-Hall do Brasil, 1994.
`• Modern Aviation Electronics, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1994.
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`BOEING
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`Licenses and Certifications
`• Registered Professional Engineer, (retired) in the State of New Jersey.
`• FCC Commercial General Radiotelephone License, Ship Radar Endorsement.
`Awards:
`• Radio Club of America, The Jerry Minter Award for contributions to avionics, 2014
`• AIAA Digital Avionics Award, 2013
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`IEEE Florida Council, Outstanding Engineering Educator, 2006
`• ERAU Outstanding Faculty Award, 2006
`• ERAU Outstanding Researcher, 2001
`• ERAU, Department of Technology, Outstanding Faculty Member, 1997-1998
`• ERAU Department of Technology, Outstanding Faculty Award, 1996
`• Listed: Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in The World
`U. S. Patents
`• A Method of Erasure of Magnetic Media, 1986
`• A Method of Frequency Synthesis, 1988
`• RF Coupler for Measuring RF Parameters in the Near Field, 1994
`• Apparatus and Method for Coupling Satellite Navigation Signals to a VOR System, 1997
`• Three others pending
`Membership:
`• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
`• Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
`• Life Fellow of the Radio Club of America
`• Life Member of Quarter Century Wireless Association
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`BOEING
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