The tao of microelectronics, 2014: title page (Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, USA) page xi (associate professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Southeast Missouri State University; his academic career started in China; in 1989 he obtained a master's degree in physics from Zhejiang University and then was employed as technical staff in the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences; after receiving a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2000, he started to work as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin--Platteville and then at Oklahoma State University--Stillwater; his research fields include semiconductor devices and electronic circuits; since joining Southeast Missouri State University in 2007, he has also investigated in the field of physics and engineering education; he is very interested in teaching Chinese to no-native speakers and has written a book on this topic: Roots and Branches: a Systematic Way of Learning Chinese Characters)