Norm's Background

Norm Bartley

I received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Around that time, Pierre Trudeau was completing his second term as Canada's Prime Minister and regular leaded gasoline cost $0.52 per imperial gallon. I wore a bell-bottomed blue pin-striped suit to my graduation.

Then ...

From the time of graduation until July 1998, I have had the pleasure of working alongside Dr. Len Bruton as his full-time Research Assistant. We have together carried out research in M-D and 1-D signal processing here at the University of Calgary (1979-1983, 1985-1998), and for two years in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria (1984-1985). The research has lead to over 30 fully-refereed journal and conference papers and a book chapter.

Our shared research interests include:

multidimensional circuits and systems theory applied to image processing;
hardware and software implementations of high-speed DSP algorithms.

And now ...

In July, 1998, I was appointed as a Faculty Member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (now Electrical and Software Engneering) in the Instructor Stream. My primary responsibilities in this position have been in undergraduate teaching and in undergraduate administration as Electrical and Computer Engineering Program Director.