Clyde F. Coombs, Jr. is the Editor In Chief of the popular Electronics Instrument Handbook and has been editing best selling books on various electronic and reliability topics since 1997. Recently retired after 30 years in various management and engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard, he has also published four editions of the Printed Circuits Handbook, and two editions of the Reliability Engineering and Management Handbook. Both books are also published by McGraw-Hill Catherine A. Coombs holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell Universities. She was a major contributor to the book Introducti...