M. J. Roberts is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. He has worked and published in several diverse areas of Electrical Engineering including embedded systems, sensor and instrumentation development, Johnson noise thermometry and spectroscopy as applied to process control. He has taught at the University of Tennessee full-time since 1984. Courses he has taught include circuit theory, signals and systems, engineering applications of optics and random variables at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a senior member of the IEEE.