Boris S AronovBoris S. Aronov received a Master of Sciences in Electroacoustics from the Electrotechnical Institute (LETI) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1954 and a Master of Sciences degree in Mathematics from Leningrad State University in 1955. In 1962he defended a PhD dissertation at the Electrotechnical Institute and in 1973 received a Doctor of Sciences degree in Electroacoustics from the Acoustical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Aronov has dedicated more than forty years to the research, design, and implementation of the sonar transducers at Marine Physical Equipment Institute (Morphyspribor) in St. Petersburg, Russia. After immigrating with his family to the United States, he has worked for more than twenty years with BTech Acoustics in Fall River, MA, and has occupied the post of Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Dr. Aronov is the author of numerous papers published in the Soviet Journal of Physical Acoustics and in The Journal of Acoustical Society of America. His first book, Electromechanical Piezoelectric Ceramic Transducers was published in Russia in 1990 and translated into English in 2008. Dr. Aronov is a member of the Acoustical Society of America. Read More Read Less