SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ESSENTIALS, Volume I: The Development Process (Volume 1)
Richard Hall Thayer, PhD, CSDP, visited all six continents as a consultant and lecturer in software engineering, project management, and software engineering standards. In the summers, he was a visiting lecturer and senior researcher at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and he recently visited China where he lectured on the new IEEE professional software engineering certificate.Dr. Thayer received a BSEE degree and an MS degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Electrical Engineering. He is an Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at Sacramento State University and before that was a senior officer in the U.S. Air Force. He spent four years directing the U.S. Air Force R&D program in computer science. Dr. Thayer is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core, and a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP), Standards Committee. He is the author of 16 books  on software engineering.Merlin Dorfman PhD, PE, retired in September 2009 from Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA. He had been a member of the Network Management Technology Group (NMTG) Quality Team and also worked with the team developing the next-generation product development process. Merlin previously retired in 1997 from Lockheed Martin Corp. in Sunnyvale, CA. He specialized in systems engineering for software-intensive systems (requirements analysis, top-level architecture, and performance evaluation), in software process improvement, and in algorithm development for data processing systems.Dr. Dorfman has a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from Stanford University, all in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of California and Colorado, and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau honorary societies. Dr. Dorfman is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), winner of its Aerospace Software Engineering Award for 1999. He is an affiliate member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. He is also a Program Evaluator for Aerospace Engineering program accreditation through the AIAA and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). He is co-author or co-editor of several books on software engineering, requirements engineering, and system engineering for IEEE and AIAA.