Thomas E. Linnenbrink received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1967 from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a MS in Engineering Science with emphasis in automatic Control from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971. He co-founded Q-DOT, Inc., in 1977 to develop signal generation, data acquisition, and signal processing equipment based on unique, custom integrated circuits.
He is currently a Business Development Manager for Hittite Microwave which acquired Q-DOT in 2005. He has been active in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Waveform Generation, Measurement, and Analysis Committee (TC-10) since its inception and has served as its chairman since 1997. TC-10 has developed standards for digitizing waveform recorders, ADCs, and pulses, and is developing standards for DACs and high-frequency instrumentation probes.
