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CURRICULUM VITAE July 2019

Name: Jonathan Scott Present position: Foundation Professor of Electronics, School of Engineering The University of Waikato Contact details: Office phone: +64 7 838-4909 (voicemail forwards reliably) Cell phone: +64 27 874-2686 Email: [email protected], [email protected] URL: http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/about-us/people/scottj Tertiary Education: 2014, PGC Management in Higher Ed., Waikato University 1997, PhD, The University of Sydney 1985, M.Eng.Sc., The University of Sydney 1979 B.E. (hons), The University of Sydney 1977, BSc., The University of Sydney Distinctions/Honours: Senior Member, IEEE Professorial Fellow, Macquarie University, Sydney Fellow, Engineers Australia Member, Audio Engineering Society Faculty Teaching Prize, Waikato University, 2011 Engineering Foundation Teaching Prize, 1994 British Telecom Fellowship, 1993 Employment Record: July 2006, Foundation Professor of EE, University of Waikato 1998--2006, Advanced Measurements Lab, Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, California 1997--1998, Chief Engineer, RF Technology, Sydney 1988--1997, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney 1985--1988, Director & CTO, Brereton-Samuel Research 1980--1982, Designer, Modern Magazines Publication summary: >12 patents, several licensed or protecting current products >50 journal papers >100 refereed conference presentations 1 book, 2 book chapters Approximately 50 popular science publications; personal web site & youtube channel Achievements in current Supervisor for 6 HDR students position: Chairman, ENZCon 2014 Papers co-chair, IEEE IESES18 Produced & curated a suite of instructional videos entirely replacing 1st-year lectures Founding member of BioMedical Research Group (BMRG) Marsden fund Engineering & Interdisciplinary Sciences (EIS) panel (2017-18) MBIE proposal assessor (2017) Strong working relationship with WaikatoLink (UoW commercialisation unit) Two Waikato Medical Research Fund (WMRF) grants, two Teaching & Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) grants, ongoing funding from Saluda Medical, Anago/Callaghan Research, Momutech, MBIE (SfTI). Expert witness in matters involving radio, radar and electronics Hosted numerous visitors (Lucas, Redman-White, Holmes, Kim, etc.) Chaired Macquarie University’s External Review Panel for EE Regular reviewer for IEEE Trans MTT, Trans I&M, T-Ed, EuMC, IJMST, etc. Top-10-downloaded researcher on the University Research Commons, Browse. Associate Editor, IET Circuits & Systems (2017-19) h-index of 20 HDR Students supervised

Peter Blockley, Toby Balsom, Ehsan Negahbani, Mark Jones, Cameron Kelly, Kyle Pennington, Steven McCabe, Gaojie Chen, Mark Benseman, Jonathan McMullan, Sam Parkinson, Rahat Hasan, Marcus Macdonell, Hedayati Mohamed, Russel Mohamed, Amir Mukhtar, Iris Xiao, Dirk Hartung, Stefan Gygax, Hiroshi Mohri, Daniel Dredge, Sinduja Seshadri, Carl Lickfold, Jianbang Liu…

PUBLICATIONS and PATENTS

(2001--2017)

Patents ``Electrode Assembly'', Inventors Single P, Scott J, McCabe S, Parker J. Application WO 2018/157214 A1, PCT application, filed 2 Mar 2018, published 7 Sep 2018. ``Implant Conductor with RF Decoy'', Patent Application PCT/NZ2016/050182, filed 2016. Inventors Steven McCabe and Jonathan Scott. ``Implant Conductor with Improved Radio Frequency Properties'', NZ Application No. 708633, filed 2015. Inventors Jonathan Scott and Steven McCabe. ``Method and Apparatus for Calibrating a Sampling Circuit'', US Patent 6,795,787, granted 21 September 2004. Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. ``Scattering-Parameter Travelling-Wave Magnitude Calibration System and Method'', US Patent 6,982,561, granted January 3, 2006 Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. (This patent protects IP in the Agilent N5242A options 510 and 514.) ``Pulse Generator'', US patent number 7,423,470, granted September 2008. Inventors: Jonathan Scott and Daniel Gunyan (This patent protects the key IP in the Agilent U9391C Comb Generator.) ``Sensor Assembly'', filed 21 March 2007, number 554060. Inventors: Jonathan Scott, Daniel Rosborough, Michael Cosgrove. ``Method To Eliminate Low Frequency Oscillations (lfos) In III-V Compound Semiconductor Bipolar Transistors (hbts)'', filed March 2005. Inventors: Masaya Iwamoto, Jonathan Scott and Tom Low. ``Thermocouple microwave power sensor'', (Balance Method in Thermocouple RF Power Measurement), United States Patent Application 20070176768, filed January 31, 2006 Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. (This patent protects key IP for linearising Agilent Technologies' thermocouple power meters.) ``Load measurement for a thermal microwave power sensor'', (Aging Sense), United States Patent 7372249, filed January 31, 2006 Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. (This patent protects key IP in upcoming Agilent Technologies' thermocouple power meters.) ``RF Power Sensor'', filed May 2006 Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. ``Fast Extrapolation of a Thermal Sensor's Final Value and Discovery/Verification of a Thermal Sensor's Thermal Time Constant'', United States Patent Application 20080114555, filed October, 2006 Jonathan B Scott sole named inventor. ``Embedded Directional Power Sensing'', United States Patent Application 20080224690, filed May, 2008, Inventors: Nicholson, Dean, and Scott, Jonathan B. Journal Papers Scott, J. B., and Hasan, R. “New Results for Battery Impedance at Very Low Frequencies”, IEEE Access, vol 7., pp 106925-106930, July 2019. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8782108)

Hasan, R., and Scott, J. B., “Comments on `State of Charge-Dependent Polynomial Equivalent Circuit Modeling for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Lithium-Ion Batteries’,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 1, early access, 2019.

Single P & Scott J, “Cause of Pulse Artefacts Inherent to the Electrodes of Neuromodulation Implants”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26(10):01 Oct 2018.

Mukhtar A, Cree MJ, Scott J, Streeter L, “Gait analysis of pedestrians with the aim of detecting disabled people”, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 884:105-112, Aug 2018.

Scott, J. B., & Seshadri, S. (2018). Corrections to Compact Nonlinear Model of an Implantable Electrode Array for Spinal Cord Stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 12(4):963-964 May 2018.

Scott, J. B., & Hasan, R. (2018). Letter to the Editor Re ‘Fractional Modeling and SOC Estimation of Lithium-ion Battery’. IEEE CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 5(2), 644–644. https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2017.7510853

Nguyen Cong Dao, Abdallah El Kass, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Craig T Jin, Jonathan Scott, Philip HW Leong, “An enhanced MOSFET threshold voltage model for the 6–300K temperature range,” Microelectronics Reliability, Pergamon, volume 69, 2017, pp36—39. McCabe, Steven, and Jonathan Scott, "A Novel Implant Electrode Design Safe in the RF Field of MRI Scanners”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, March 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2669977 Jonathan Scott, ``Forging the jewels of the curriculum: Educational practice inspired by a thermodynamic model of threshold concepts'', Waikato Journal of Education, 2014, 19 (2), 115--121. Jones, Mark H. and Jonathan Scott, "Scaling of Electrode-Electrolyte Interface Model Parameters In Phosphate Buffered Saline", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2014.2333759, 2014. Toby Balsom, Jonathan Scott, and William Redman-White, "Analysis of circuit conditions for optimum intermodulation and gain in bipolar cascomp amplifiers with non-ideal error correction", IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol.8, no.6, 2013. Jonathan Scott and Kyle Pennington, “Acoustic Vector-Corrected Impedance Meter”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, volume 63, no. 12, DOI-10.1109/TIM.2014.2327474, December 2014. Jonathan Scott and Peter Single, “Compact Nonlinear Model of an Implantable Electrode Array for Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol.8, no.3, 2014, pp382-390. Scott, J. & Harlow, A., "Identification of threshold concepts involved in early electronics: Some new methods and results", Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2012. Kantartzis, N. V., Assimonis, S. D., Lalas, A. X., Scott, J. B., and Antonopoulos, C. S.; "A Spectrally-Accurate FVTD Technique for Complicated Amplification and Reconfigurable Filtering EMC Devices", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol~48, no.2 DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2011.2173558 2012, pp383--386. Steven McCabe and Jonathan Scott, “Measurement of Antennas and Microwave Components Using Time-Domain Reflectometry of a Voltage Impulse”, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2011.2169450 Ann Harlow, Jonathan Scott, Mira Peter, and Bronwen Cowie, “ 'Getting stuck' in analogue electronics: Threshold concepts as an explanatory model”, European Journal of Engineering Education. 2011. p.1-13. DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2011.606500. Jonathan Scott, "A Letter to Editors'', IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 12, no. 4, June 2011, pp16--18. Jonathan Scott, T. S. Low, Steve Cochran, Ben Keppeler, John Staroba, and Bob Yeats, ``New Thermocouple-Based Microwave/mmWave Power Sensor MMIC Techniques in GaAs'', IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2087346. Jonathan Scott, “The Engineers that Time Forgot”, IEEE Microwave magazine, February 2010, pp34--38. Jonathan Scott and Michael Hoy, ``Group-Delay Measurement of Frequency-Converting Devices using a Comb Generator'', IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume: 59 , Issue: 11, November 2010, pp:3012--3017. John McLeish, Howell Round, and Jonathan Scott, ``Speed Control with Low Armature Loss for Very Small Sensorless Brushed DC Motors'', IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol~56, no.~4, April 2009, pp1223--1229. Peter S. Blockley, Jonathan B. Scott, Daniel Gunyan, and Anthony E Parker, ``The Random Component of Mixer-Based Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer Measurement Uncertainty'', IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 55, no. 10, October 2007, pp2231--2239. Peter S. Blockley, Jonathan B. Scott, Daniel Gunyan, and Anthony E Parker, ``Noise Considerations When Determining Phase of Large-Signal Microwave Measurements'', IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no. 8, August 2006, pp3182--3190. Jonathan Scott, ``Investigation of a Method to Improve VNA Calibration in Planar Dispersive Media Through Adding an Asymmetrical Reciprocal Device'', IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 53, no. 9, September 2005, pp3007--3013. Jonathan Scott, ``New Method to Measure Emitter Resistance of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors'', IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 50, No. 9, September 2003, pp1970--1973. Jonathan Scott, Jan Verspecht, Babak Behnia, Marc Vanden Bossche, Alex Cognata, Frans Verbeyst, Mark Thorn, and Daniel R. Scherrer, ``Enhanced On-wafer Time-Domain Waveform Measurement through Removal of Interconnect Dispersion and Measurement Instrument Jitter'', IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, no. 12, December 2002, pp3022--3028. Iwamoto, M.; Hutchinson, C.P.; Scott, J.B.; Low, T.S.; Vaidyanathan, M.; Asbeck, P.M.; D'Avanzo, D.C.; ``Optimum bias conditions for linear broad-band InGaP/GaAs HBT power amplifiers'', IEEE transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 50, no. 12, December 2002, pp2954--2962. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.805135 Books and Book Chapters A. E. Parker, J. G. Rathmell and J. B. Scott, "Pulsed measurements", in The RF and Microwave Handbook, 2nd edition (M Golio, ed.), Vol. II, RF and Microwave Circuits, Measurements, and Modeling ch. 8, pp. 8.1--8.30, USA: CRC Press, 2008, INVITED CONTRIBUTION, ISBN-13: 978-0-8493-7218-6 A. E. Parker and J. B. Scott, ``Modelling and Characterisation of GaAs Devices'', G. Machado (ed), Low-power HF microelectronics, chapter 6, IEE, ISBN 0 85296 874 4, UK, 1996. J B Scott, Analog Electronic Design, Prentice-Hall, 1991, ISBN 0-13-033192-9.

Quality-assured Conference Papers Seshadri, S, and J Scott, ``Energy-Efficient SMPS-Based Pulse Generator for Neurostimulators’’, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements & Applications (MeMeA), Turkey, 26–28 June 2019. Macdonell, M, and J Scott, ``Realizing An Acoustic Vector Network Analyser’’, Proceedings of the 147th AES Convention, New York, 14—19 Oct 2019. Hasan, R, and J Scott, ``Measurement for fractional characteristic of lithium batteries’’, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, , , 20—23 May 2019. Hasan, R, and J Scott, ``Impedance measurement of batteries under load’’, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 20—23 May 2019. Macdonell, M., and J Scott, ``Waveguide joint design and validation for use in acoustic vector-corrected network analysers’’, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 20—23 May 2019. Seshadri, S., and J Scott, ``Pulse-shaping feed-forward-compensated generator’’, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 20—23 May 2019. Scott, J. B., Khoo, E. G. L., Seshadri, S., & Cree, M. J. (2017). Assessment of Self-Management Skills in a Project-Based Learning Paper. In Proceedings of 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 1–10). Sydney, Australia: Engineers Australia. Seshadri, S., & Scott, J. B. (2017). Enhancing Skin-Effect Using Surface Roughening and its Potential to Reduce RF Heating from Implant Leads. Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon) 2017, , New Zealand, 4—6 December. Marcus, Macdonell, & Scott, J. B., (2017). Development and Basic Calibration of an Acoustic Vector Network Analyser. Electronics New Zealand Conference 2017 (ENZCon 2017), Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2017. Kelly, C., & Scott, J. B., “The Coffee Roaster’s Paradox”, ENZCon 2017, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2017. Scott, J. B., & Mohri, H. (2017). Cross-Needle Analog Meter to Monitor Charge Time for Lithium-Ion Single Cell. Presented at the ENZCon 2017, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2017. Hartung, D., Scott, J. B., McCabe, S. O., & Single, P. (2017). MRI Safe Electrodes for Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS). 13th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 27- June 1 2017. Streeter, L. V., Scott, J., Lickfold, C., & Cree, M. J., "Design of a pseudo-holographic distributed time-of-flight sonar range imaging system", Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, IVCNZ2016, November 2016. Lee, T., Kennedy, H.R.B., Bodnar, R.A., Jonathan B Scott, and William Redman-White, “Wireless power and network synchronisation for agricultural and industrial remote sensors using low voltage CMOS Harvesting and Data Demodulator IC”, 22nd Electronics New Zealand Conference, ENZCon16, , November 2016. Peter, M., Khoo, E. G. L., Scott, J. B., & Round, W. H. (2016). "Learning threshold concepts in an undergraduate engineering flipped classroom”, in N. Wright (Ed.), DEANZ2016, There and back: Charting flexible pathways in open, mobile and distance education, pp.111–115, University of Waikato. McCabe, S., & Scott, J. B., "Measurement of implant electrode leads using time-domain reflectometry to predict the resonant length for MRI heating”, Proceedings of the 22nd Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon16), November 17-18, 2016, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 90–94. Hasan, R., & Scott, J. B., "Fractional behaviour of rechargeable batteries”, Proceedings of the 22nd Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon16), November 17-18, 2016, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 111–114, 2016. Dirks, S., & Scott, J. B., "Precision crystal frequency reference disciplined using mains power”, Proceedings of the 22nd Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon16), November 17-18, 2016, Wellington, New Zealand, pp.28–31. Hutchins, M., & Scott, J. B., "Speed control of small motors through the Ćuk Converter Topology”, Proceedings of the 22nd Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon16), November 17-18, 2016, Wellington, New Zealand, pp.49–53. Steven McCabe and Jonathan Scott, "New MRI-safe Implant Electrode Design”, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), session WE2B, San Francisco, May 23—27, 2016. Rahat Hasan and Jonathan Scott, "Application of Swingler's Method for Analysis of Multicomponent Exponentials with Special Attention to Non-equispaced Data", CSPA 2016: 12th IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications, 4-6 March 2016, Melaka, Malaysia. Steven McCabe and Jonathan Scott, "Technique to Assess the Compatibility of Medical Implants to the RF Field in MRI", Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Nanjing, Dec. 6-9, 2015, session TU4F. Cameron Kelly and Jonathan Scott, "Does Anyone Need a Coffee? Online Microwave Moisture Measurement of Roasting Beans", Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Nanjing, Dec. 6-9, 2015, session WE1H. Elaine Khoo, Jonathan Scott and Mira Peter, ``'I could replay the videos': Evaluating the Effectiveness of Instructional Videos in a Threshold Concept-based Flipped Classroom in Electronic Engineering'', Proceedings of the 26th Annual AAEE Conference, Melbourne, December 6-9, 2015. Elaine Khoo, Jonathan Scott, Mira Peter and Howell Round, ``Evaluating Flipped Classrooms with respect to Threshold Concepts Learning in Undergraduate Engineering'', IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 21-24, El Paso, Texas, 2015, pp738--741. M. Hedayati, M. J.Cree, and J. Scott, ``Combination of mean shift of colour signature and optical flow for tracking during foreground and background occlusion'', 7th Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 23--27 Nov 2015. Steven McCabe, Jonathan Scott and Stephen Butler, ``Electromagnetic Techniques to Minimize the Risk of Hazardous Local Heating around Medical Implant Electrodes during MRI Scanning'', 18th European Microwave Conference, Paris, 6-11 September 2015. Mohamed Hedayati, Michael Cree and Jonathan Scott, "Network Structure for Tracking Jockeys in Horse Races", proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 14), Nov 2014, University of Waikato. Steven McCabe & Jonathan Scott, “Cause and Amelioration of MRI-Induced Heating Through Medical Implant Lead Wires”, 21st Electronics New Zealand Conference, Hamilton, 20-21 Nov 2014 Marcus MacDonell & Jonathan Scott, ``3D-printed Acoustic Directional Couplers'', 21st Electronics New Zealand Conference, Hamilton, 20-21 Nov 2014 Cameron Kelly and Jonathan Scott, ``Online Thermal Analysis of Batch Roasted Coffee Beans'', 21st Electronics New Zealand Conference, Hamilton, 20-21 Nov 2014 Jonathon McMullan and Jonathan Scott, `` Impact of Repair Joints in Fencing Wire on Data Communications: How to Receive Radio and Block Data using No. 8 Wire ', 21st Electronics New Zealand Conference, Hamilton, 20-21 Nov 2014 Mark Jones and Jonathan Scott, `` Feasibility of Harvesting Power To Run A Domestic Water Meter Using Streaming Cell Technology '', 21st Electronics New Zealand Conference, Hamilton, 20-21 Nov 2014 Peter, M., Harlow, A., Balsom, T., & Scott, J. Virtual learning: How online tutorials shape learning of threshold concepts. Paper presented at the 5th Biennial International Threshold Concepts Conference: Threshold Concepts in Practice. 9-11 July 2014, Durham, England. Jonathan Scott, Toby Balsom, Howell Round, Mira Peter and Ann Harlow ``Threshold-Concept Inspired eTutorials in Electronics'', Proceedings of the 20th Electronics New Zealand Conference, Albany, 5-6 September 2013, pp127--132. Scott, J., “Forging the jewels of the curriculum: Educational practice inspired by thermodynamic model of threshold concepts”, Conference on Transforming disciplines: Emergent learning and threshold concepts, ELTC, 18-19 November 2013. Jonathan Scott, Ann Harlow, and Mira Peter, “Towards A TCT-Inspired Electronics Concept Inventory”, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Dublin, January 2014, 113-117. Ann Harlow, Mira Peter, and Jonathan Scott, Students' Perceptions of Travel Through the Liminal Space: Lessons for Teaching, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Dublin, January 2014, 62-67. Jonathan Scott, Toby Balsom, Howell Round, Mira Peter and Ann Harlow ``Threshold-Concept Inspired eTutorials in Electronics'', Proceedings of the 20th Electronics New Zealand Conference, Albany, 5-6 September 2013, pp127--132. Scott, J. (2013). Forging the jewels of the curriculum: Educational practice inspired by thermodynamic model of threshold concepts. Conference on Transforming disciplines: Emergent learning and threshold concepts conference (ELTC), 18-19 November 2013. J. Scott, B. Chang, C. Jameson, L. Payne, D. McLaren, A. Barr-Smith, C. Came and C. Hechei, “Prototype of a New Engineering Masters Project Model: Working with Marketing and Software Faculties to Commercially Kickstart University Research”, paper 13, Proceedings of The 19th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), , New Zealand, 10-12 December, 2012. A. Harlow, M. Peter and J. Scott, ``Threshold Concept Knowledge in Analogue Electronics: Support and Assessment'', paper 1, Proceedings of The 19th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), Dunedin, New Zealand, 10-12 December, 2012. H. Jull, T. Balsom and J. Scott "Cascomp BJT Amplifier vs. Traditional Configurations", paper 97, Proceedings of The 19th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), Dunedin, New Zealand, 10-12 December, 2012. Jonathan Scott, Mira Peter, and Ann Harlow, ``An Electronics Threshold-Concept Inventory: Assessment in the face of the dependency of concepts'', Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Teaching and Learning in Engineering conference (TALE), Hong Kong, 20--23 August, 2012, T1C-2. Jonathan Scott and Ann Harlow, "Identification of threshold concepts involved in early electronic engineering: Some methods and results", Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Fremantle, December 3--5, 2011, pp460--465. Kyle Pennington, Jonathan Scott, and Kerry Bodman, "Determining Acoustical Directionality in an Impedance Tube Using Multiple Fixed Microphones", Proceedings of the 18th ENZCon, , 21-22 November, 2011, pp73-76. Toby Balsom, Jonathan Scott, and William Redman-White, "Third-Order Nulling Effect in Darlington Transistors", Proceedings of the 18th ENZCon, Palmerston North, 21--22 November, 2011, pp82--86. Mark H. Jones, and Jonathan B. Scott, "The Energy Efficiency of 8-bit Low-power Microcontrollers", Proceedings of the 18th ENZCon, Palmerston North, 21-22 November, 2011, pp87--90. Jonathan Scott and Ann Harlow, ``Threshold Concepts in Introductory Electronics: Methods and Results'', Proceedings of the 22nd AaeE Conference, Perth, 4--7 December, 2011. Jonathan Scott, Kyle Pennington, Sergej Schwarz, amd Philip Rowe, “Vehicle Lead-Acid Battery State-of-Charge Meter”, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Melbourne, November, 2011. Jones, M.H. & Jonathan Scott, ``Design study of a thermocouple power sensor as a monolithic fin- line'', 77th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference Digest, Baltimore, Maryland; June 10, 2011. Jonathan Scott, Ann Harlow, Mira Peters, and Bronwen Cowie, ``Threshold Concepts and Introductory Electronics'', Proceedings of the 21st AaeE Conference, Sydney, 5--8 December 2010. Jonathan Scott, Ann Harlow, and Mira Peters, ``Impact of Running First Year and Final Year Electronics Laboratory Classes in Parallel'', Proceedings of the 21st AaeE Conference, Sydney, 5--8 December 2010. Jonathan Scott, ``Elecronics: A Potted History and a Glimpse of the Future'', invited talk, Proceedings of the 17th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), Hamilton, New Zealand, 22--23 November, 2010, pp1--2. Jonathan Scott, Ann Harlow, Mira Peters, and Bronwen Cowie, ``Exploring Threshold Concepts in Electronics Engineering'', 3rd Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium, Session 6.7, page 82, Sydney, July 1--2, 2010. Steven Kane and Jonathan Scott, ``The Slot Car Stig: Performance and Consistency of a Slot Car Driven by a Heuristic Algorithm in an Embedded Microcontroller'', Proceedings of the 16th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon), Dunedin, New Zealand, 18-20 November, 2009, pp177--180. Jonathan B. Scott and Lawrence Muijlwijk, ``Acoustic Tamper Detection Sensor with Very Low False Alarm Rate'', 42$^{nd}$ IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Prague, October 13--16, 2008. Jonathan B. Scott, and Anthony E. Parker, ``Performance and Applications of Gallium-Nitride Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (GaN MMICs)'', in Microelectronics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III, (Vijay K. Varadan Alex J. Hariz, Ed.), Canberra, Australia, 4--7 Dec. 2007, SPIE vol. 6798 of Proceedings of SPIE, pp. 67980F (1-12), (Invited Paper) doi:10.1117/12.764253. Jonathan Scott, Bruce Rhodes, and Michael Cosgrove, ``Ultra-low-cost Logging Anemometer for Wind Power Generation Feasibility Surveys'', Proceedings of the 14th New Zealand Electronics Conference, Wellington, November 12--13, 2007, pp153--158. Peter S. Blockley, Jonathan B. Scott, Daniel Gunyan and Anthony E Parker, "Nonlinear Network Analysis and Measurement", Workshop on Applications in Radio Science, (Phil Wilkinson, Ed.), Leura, NSW, Australia, 15-17 Feb. 2006, Union Radio Science International, Commission B, National Committee for Radio Science. P. S. Blockley, D. Gunyan, and J. B. Scott, "Mixer-Based, Vector-Corrected, Vector Signal/Network Analyzer Offering 300kHz-20GHz Bandwidth and Traceable Phase Response," in International Microwave Symposium, (Long Beach, CA), IEEE, NY, 12-16 Jun 2005, pp1497--1500. ISSN: 0149-6298. DOI 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516977. P. S. Blockley, D. Gunyan, and J. B. Scott, "Wide-Bandwidth, Vector-Corrected Measurement with High Spurious-Free Dynamic Range," in 65th ARFTG Conference Digest, Long Beach, CA, USA, 17 June 2005, Automated RF Techniques Group, ISBN: 0-7803-8371-0. (Awarded Best Interactive Session Paper) Jonathan Scott, "Pulsed-I/V and Pulsed-S-Parameters: Some Applications", Pulsed I/V Measurement Workshop, 64th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, Orlando, Dec 1-3, 2004. Jonathan B. Scott, Peter S. Blockley, and Anthony E Parker, "A New Instrument Architecture for Millimetre-Wave Time-Domain Signal Analysis", 11th June 2004, 63rd Automated RF Techniques Group Symposium (Fort Worth, Texas), pp47--51. Jonathan Scott, ``Rapid Millimetre-wave Sampler Response Characterization to Well Beyond 120GHz Using an Improved Nose-to-nose Method'', paper TH3A-3, MTT-s IMS Digest, Philadelphia, June 2003, pp1511--1514. ``Large-Signal HBT Model with Improved Collector Transit Time Formulation for GaAs and InP Technologies'', Masaya Iwamoto, David E.Root, Jonathan B. Scott, Alex Cognata, Peter M. Asbeck, Brian Hughes, and Don C. D'Avanzo, IMS Digest, MTT-S IMS 2003, paper WE1A-1, Philadelphia, pp635--638. ``Optimum Bias Conditions for Linear Broadband InGaP/GaAs HBT Power Amplifiers'', Masaya Iwamoto, Craig P.Hutchinson, Jonathan B.Scott, Thomas S.Low, Mani Vaidyanathan, Peter M.Asbeck, and Don C.D 'Avanzo, IMS Digest, MTT-S IMS 2002, pp901--904, paper WE3A-2, Seattle. Jonathan B.Scott, Babak Behnia, Marc Vanden Bossche, Alex Cognata, Jan Verspecht, Frans Verbeyst, Mark Thorn, and Daniel R.Scherrer, ``Removal of Cable and Connector Dispersion in Time-Domain Waveform Measurements on 40Gb Integrated Circuits'', IMS Digest, MTT-S IMS 2002, pp1669--1672, paper TH2E-4, Seattle. David G. Haigh, Danny R. Webster, Reza Ataei, Tony E. Parker and Jonathan Scott, ``Issues in Nonlinear Circuit Theory and Application to High Frequency Linear Amplifier Design'' Proceedings of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems Conference, Delft, 21--23 June 2001, Invited Presentation no. 1. Jonathan Scott, ``Nonlinear III-V HBT Compact Models: Do We Have What We Need?'', IEEE MTT-S International Symposium Digest, Phoenix, June, 2001. Jonathan Scott, ``Reconciliation of Methods for Bipolar Transistor Thermal Resistance Extraction'', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, May 2001. Jonathan Scott, ``Measuring and characterizing devices: Tutorial Guide'', The IEEE International Symposium on ISCAS, 6-9 May 2001, Pages: 2.1\_1-2.1\_15. Jonathan Scott and Tom Low, ``Avalanche Breakdown in HBTs: Variation with Collector Current and Effect on Linearity'', 2000 GaAs IC Symposium, November 2000.