Bob Griffith

As a child, Bob took lessons on the trumpet and saxophone and in the 50's formed his own Rock 'n Roll band.   Bob has also played Trombone, Tuba, French Horn, and Keyboards.  His main instrument is the Trumpet. Listen to Music from Bob's Album, "Mostly Gershwin".

Bob founded and runs a web site for engineers.
In 1965 he started his engineering career at Fairchild Semi-Conductor.  Five years later, Bob and his family moved to Malaysia, where he helped with the building and operation of the first electronic factory on the island of Penang.    After returning to the United States, he established hybrid facilities for Farinon, Western Microwave, and Raytheon.   In the 80's, Bob was engineering manager for Honeywell Space-Com.    Then in 1987, he and his wife Gail embarked on a 3 1/2-year sabbatical.   They traveled in a motor home throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico before they settled back again in San Jose.   Bob worked as a Senior Design Engineer first at Omni Microwave Networks and since 1993 at Digital Microwave Corporation.  He specializes in microwave and millimeter wave circuit and subsystem design. 

Patents:  While at Honeywell Space-Com, he developed the millimeter wave S-Parameter test set and jointly received a patent on "An Adjustable Waveguide Line Extender".    Some of his  most recent patents, granted in 1998 for a "Broadband Tunable Waveguide Filter Using Etched Septum Discontinuities.". Another patent in 1999 for a "Miniaturized Power Divider Incorporating a Lowpass Filter Structure". 

Never bored, he has always had a variety of hobbies including COMPUTERS, billiards, building and racing slot cars, building his own boat, COMPUTERS, riding motorcycles, flying planes, and COMPUTERS.      Bob has been married 36 years to Gail and together they have a blended family of 7 children, his, hers and theirs!   They enjoy spending time with the grandkids, all 12 of them.

email: tec@engineers.com