For the development and initial offering of the course, there are three professors, two teaching assistants, and three staff running the course. The professors are Edward Lee (signal processing, embedded systems, design methodology, and communications), David Messerschmitt (communications, signal processing, and VLSI architectures), and Shankar Sastry (controls and robotics). The teaching assistants are Ken Chiang and William Huang, who developed the laboratory exercises with general direction from the professors and staff. The staff are Brian Evans (MATLAB and Web course materials), Ferenc Kovac (equipment and scheduling), and John Reekie (TI DSP programming and board expertise).