Dedication Gratitude and Appreciation 0 Dedication Fill your

Dedication, Gratitude, and Appreciation 0

Dedication “Fill your heart with love and express it in everything you do. ” – Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham To viewers and users all over the world, I offer to you this material on Electromagnetics, the “Mother of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ” with the spirit of the above message from Amma, the “Mother of Compassion!” 1

Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in her Ashram, with the US delegation for the Indo-US Interuniversity Collaborative Initiative for Higher Education and Research, on December 9, 2005 2

Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Devi hugging the lady on the right in the previous slide, on December 9, 2005 3

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore (picture taken on August 9, 2006) 4

Narayana Rao presenting a copy of the U. S. Edition of “Fundamentals of Electromagnetics for Electrical and Computer Engineering” to Amrita University Vice Chancellor Venkat Rangan, directly in front of the statue of Goddess Saraswathi, the Goddess of knowledge and wisdom, on August 22, 2008.

Gratitude and Appreciation to ECE Illinois I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the administrators, faculty colleagues, and staff of ECE Illinois, over my many years at Illinois since 1965, without whose support my contributions over the years, leading to this material, would not have been possible. 6

William L. Everitt Laboratory, Home of the ECE Department, and Temple of Electrical and Computer Engineering 7

Most of all, it is with great humility that I acknowledge the immense fortune of having known in my early years at Illinois three giants of their time, William L. Everitt, Edward C. Jordan, and Mac E. Van Valkenburg, whom I consider the grandfather, and uncle of the ECE Department, respectively. They can be seen in the picture, on the next slide, which was taken in 1975. 8

Some of the 136 full-time staff members of the EE Department in 1975 9

Thank You