Jazeps LOCMELIS

Professor Jazeps LOCMELIS Grivas iela 11/22 - 51 Riga, LV 1055 Latvia Phone: (+371)  7466166, 29254511 E-mail: jazeps.locmelis@apollo.lv

Born: September 12, 1928, Riga distr., Latvia

• Telecommunication Network
• Communication Engineering
• History of Communication Engineering in Latvia

Languages: German, Russian, Latvian

• Riga Industrial Polytechnic, 1945
• Northwest Extra-Mural Polytechnical Institute (Faculty of Radio Engineering), St.Petersburg, Russia, 1960
• Postgraduate, Institute of Electrical Engineering, , St.Petersburg, Russia, 1966.
• Dr.sc.ing. (Candidate of Science in former USSR, Ph.D. in Western countries), Institute of Electrical Engineering, St.Petersburg, Russia, 1968
• Dr.habil.sc.ing., Riga Technical University, 1998

• Technician, Engineer, Head of Laboratory, Senior Engineer - advisor, Communication Office, Riga district, 1945-1973

- Riga Technical University, 1960-2000:

• Assistant Lecturer , 1960-1965
• Associate Professor, 1965-1985
• Head of Chair, 1971-1980; 1990-1992
• Dean of Faculty of Radio Engineering and Communication, 1980-1990
• Professor, 1985 - 2000
• Director, Lattelekom Museum, 1995-2000
• State Emeritus Scientist, 2000

• Honorary Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 2000
• Full Member (Academician), International Telecommunication Academy, 1996
• Award of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Joint-Stock Company Lattelekom and the Educational Foundation of Latvia, 2002
• State Emeritus Scientist, 2000
• The Three Star Order (Republic of Latvia), 1997
• The Engineer J.Linter's Prize, Latvia, 1992
• The Merited Scientist of Latvia, 1987
• The Latvian SSR State Prize, 1985

• President, Latvian Association of Radioelectronics and Communication Engineers, 1987-1995
• Philistine, fraternity Fraternitas Metropolitanis, 1992 -
• Chairman, Fund of J.Linters, 1993 - 2004
• Member, Latvian Telecommunication Club, 1992 -1998

• Communication Engineering, 1987 - 1991
• Basics of Automatic Switching, 1965 - 1995
• Digital Switching Systems, 1992 - 2000
• Theory of Telecommunication Systems, 1980 - 2000
• Marketing of Telecommunications, 1995 - 2000
• Management of Telecommunications, 1995 - 2000

Published more than 350 scientific, methodical and popular papers, including 12 books.

• J.Locmelis. Viss mans múzs /All My Life/, 2005, Riga, 94 p. (in Latvian)
• J.Locmelis. VEF - mans liktenis / VEF - My Destiny/, 2005, Riga, 107 pp. (in Latvian).
• J.Locmelis. Telecommunication History,  III, 2005, Riga, 450 p. (in Latvian)
• J.Krauklis, J.Locmelis. Komunikaciju leksikons/ Communication Lexicon/, 2004, Riga: Jumava,  208 pp. (in Latvian).
• J.Locmelis (Editor). Telekomunikaciju specialisti II / Telecommunication Specialists II/, 2003, Riga, 267 pp. (in Latvian). 
• J.Locmelis. Telecommunication History,  II, 2002, Riga, 472 pp. (in Latvian)
• J.Locmelis. Telecommunication History, 2000, Riga, 406 pp. (in Latvian)
• J.Locmelis. Digital Switching Systems, 1998, Riga: Riga Technical University, 72 pp.
• J.Locmelis. The technical and  economical aspects of the modernisation of the Telecommunication network in Latvia. -  Riga, 1998, pp.172-173.
• J.Locmelis. Theory of Telecommunication Network, 1997, Riga: Riga Technical University, 188 pp. (in Latvian)
• J.Locmelis. Development of telecommunication in Latvia. - In: Proceedings of Conference "Latvian Mobile Telecommunications in the Global Information Society", Riga, 1997, pp. 5-6.

Last update 23.02.2007