Thomas Becker, MSEE

About

      Mr. Becker is a Senior Adjunct Professor teaching IT and CS courses at CLU. He served in the US Navy during Vietnam for 6 years where he was involved in communications and cryptography equipment at naval installations and ships. After graduating from the University of Dayton with a BSEE degree, he was employed at Hughes Malibu Research Labs where he was involved with electron beam lithography machines. At Hughes he was awarded a Hughes fellowship and graduated from USC with a Masters degree in Computer Architecture. He was employed at Texas Instruments for 22 years where he was involved in disk drive architectures, integrated circuit design, and a wide variety of customer applications using Digital Signal processors. He was Applications Manager at Vitesse Semiconductor where he wrote and presented papers on E/D GaAS semiconductors.

      Since 1982 he has taught a variety of courses in Computer Architecture, Computer History, GPS Technology, Broadband Technology, BASIC programming, PASCAL programming, JAVA programming, Assembly Language, Data Structures, Algorithms, and C++ at Cal Lutheran and Moorpark College, and he taught Signal Processor courses at Texas Instruments. Currently he teaches courses at California Lutheran University, and he was a boys soccer coach at Westlake High School for 10 years. He is also a Director on the Conejo Open Space Foundation (COSF) where he works on a variety of Open Space projects in the Conejo Valley.

At CLU Mr. Becker has taught a variety of courses including IT501, iT516, IT582, CSC321, CSC521, CSC582, and CSC210.

Education

• BS Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton
• Hughes Research Labs Masters Fellowship
• MS Computer Architecture, University of Southern California

Expertise

• CISC Computer Architecture
• RISC MIPS and ARM Architecutres
• TMS320 Digital Signal Processing Architectures
• Algorithm Analysis
• Embedded processors - Arduino systems
• Internet of Things
• Data Structures/Algorithms
• Public speaking
• Technical Interviewing techniques

Publications

• 1986 WESCON paper "Designing with GaAs Processors and Memories”
• 1987 EDN Magazine article "GaAs Bit Slice Devices"