Jack W. Lewis

CONTACT AT: www.jackwlewis.com

Jack has had successive careers as a U.S. Coast Guard officer, marine engineer, corporate CEO, software developer, horse breeder/trainer, textbook author and, late in life, a registered nurse, volunteer paramedic, and washtub bass player in an oldtime string band. He lives with his wife in the middle of Jefferson National Forest in rural western Virginia. Educated at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and MIT, Jack is a registered professional engineer specializing in the design of automatic control and instrumentation systems, especially as related to the marine industry. He is the author of numerous technical papers and articles, including national award-winning papers for the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). Jack is the author of several textbooks and engineering reference books, including interactive ebooks that explain how to use the Arduino microcontroller to study the dynamics of engineering systems and the design of digital feedback controllers. He recently published his first novel, about a young cavalryman during the first year of the Civil War in western Virginia.