Bruce Littlefield Systems Manager and Lecturer in Computer Engineering

• Office: 210 Barrows Hall
• Phone: (207) 581-2238
• FAX: (207) 581-4531
• Email

• Current Courses: ECE435, Network Engineering. This course focuses on the engineering aspects of data networks including physical media and interconnections, signals and noise, modulation, multiplexing, frame and packet transmission, routing, network design and network management.
• Current Project: Developing an effective University-level Systems Administration education program.
• Other interests include: Network Communications, Distributed and Cluster Computing, Unix Internals, Simulations, High Speed Computing, and Parallel Processing. Check out the UMaine Advanced Computing Research Lab for information on our research project.
• Personal interests include Solar Power Satellites and fixing old cars.
• Member of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA).
• Liaison between the University of Maine community and the Usenix Association and the System Administrators Guild.
  Usenix offers many student benefits including
  • discounted student memberships
  • conferences and workshops
  • stipends for students
  • prizes for student papers

University of Maine students and faculty have access to proceedings of Usenix and SAGE on the ECE web site.

B.S. Computer Engineering 1987, M.S. Electrical Engineering 1993
Mr. Littlefield is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Pi.

Publications include:

Mastering MATLAB 7, Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN #0-13-143018-1 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman).

Mastering MATLAB 6, A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN #0-13-019468-9 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman).

Mastering MATLAB 5, A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN #0-13-858366-8 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman).

The Student Edition of MATLAB User's Guide, Version 5, Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN #0-13-272550-9 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman).

Mastering MATLAB, A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN #0-13-191594-0 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman).

The Student Edition of MATLAB User's Guide, Version 4, Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN #0-13-184979-4 (Co-authored with D. Hanselman and The Mathworks, Inc.).

"Using Simulation with Hardware Verification for Teaching Computer Architecture", Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 3 Number 3 pg 173, November 1995 (Co-authored with B. Segee and J. Field).

"Teaching Computer Architecture Through Simulation With Hardware Verification", International Conference on Simulation in Engineering Education, pp 13-18 Las Vegas, NV, January 1995 (Co-authored with B. Segee and J. Field).

The Design and Implementation of a Simulator for Four Microprogrammable State Machines, Thesis (M.S. Electrical Engineering), 1993

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