Engineering Your Retirement
Mike Golio
IEEE Press • 223 pages; $34.95
ISBN: 978-0-471-77616-1
This book should be of interest to anyone looking forward to retiring comfortably on one’s own schedule. It is the result of the author’s research as well as countless discussions with technical professional retirees. It addresses topics of concern and high priority to anyone considering careful planning of retirement.
The first chapter describes the retirement options: how much is needed to retire and how long will it take to save enough money as well as learning one’s own life values. Chapter 2 offers analysis tools and calculations. Chapter 3 considers spending and living below one’s means. Chapter 4 investigates emergency funds and insurance, such as medical insurance and healthcare budgets, personal financial concerns and the necessary documents. Chapter 5 reviews diverse investment possibilities, such as bonds, stocks, real estate, annuities, pension plans, cash and certificates of deposit, Social Security, mutual funds and commodities, while Chapter 6 develops an investment plan which includes eliminating bad debt, investment issues, tax-advantaged accounts and free money, taxable investments and taxes. The last two chapters consider more personal issues, such as “What will I do when I retire?” and some final issues: where to live, sources of income and taxes. The text examines the primary issues of each topic and then points to more detailed references. A complementary web site, www.golio.net, provides supplemental data, tools, spread sheets and analysis organized according to the table of contents. Three appendices list: Web site URLs: Information, Online Calculators and Software, Fundamental Financial Equations, and a Longevity Table.
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RF and Microwave Coupled-line Circuits: Second Edition
ISBN: 978-1-59693-156-5
The first edition of this book was published in 1999. While the fundamentals of coupled-line circuits have not changed, many novel configurations of coupled-line components, such as directional couplers, filters and baluns have since been reported. With the deletion of some chapters in their entirety and the addition of new chapters and new material in others, this second edition remains the same size as the first one.
The first few chapters reflect only minor changes. Most of the major changes occur in the “Applications” part of the text, that is Chapter 8 onward. Thus, Chapter 9, on filters, includes the design of bandstop filters using coupled lines and a discussion of software packages used for filter design, together with their limitations and strengths. Chapters 10 and 11 are new. They discuss advanced filter technology and the design of filters using new materials and technologies. Chapter 10 concentrates on coupled-line filters with many specialized characteristics that are often encountered in practice. Chapter 11 takes a different direction, tackling filters using advanced materials. Chapter 12 discusses the design of common microwave components requiring coupled-line technology, such as DC blocks, transformers, interdigital capacitors and spiral inductors. Chapter 13 covers baluns of different configurations, such as microstrip-to-balanced stripline, planar transmission line and Marchand types, which are discussed in detail.
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