Marc B. Donvito

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Systems engineering

Ph.D., Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1980

Dissertation topic

Signal Processing in an Uncertain Environment: Multivariate Techniques of Nonparametric and Robust Detection

Skills required for dissertation

• Statistical analysis

• Mathematical derivations and proofs

• Technical writing for publication

• Technical presentations

• FORTRAN programming of mathematical and statistical algorithms

• Monte Carlo statistical programming techniques

Coursework

• Communication theory

• Statistical signal processing

• Statistical pattern recognition

• Satellite communications

• Information theory

• Error-correcting codes

M.S.E., Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1977

Thesis topic

Methods of sidelobe clutter reduction for random arrays

Skills required for thesis

• Signal processing analysis

• Mathematical derivations and proofs

• Technical writing for publications

• Technical presentations

Coursework

• Systems methodology

• State variable control theory

• Modeling and simulation

• Probability theory

• Statistics

• Optimal control theory

• Intro to communication theory

A.B., Physics, Catholic University of America, 1975

Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, honors in physics

Coursework (partial list)

• Quantum mechanics

• Electromagnetic fields and waves

• Mathematical analysis (real)

• Mathematical optimization theory

• General topology (point-set)

• Abstract algebra (groups, rings)