Dr. J. Duncan Glover is president and principal engineer at Failure Electrical, LLC. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT. Dr. Glover has served as principal engineer at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates and was a tenured associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department of Northeastern University. Dr. Glover has held several engineering positions with leading companies, including the International Engineering Company and the American Electric Power Service Corporation. He specializes in issues pertaining to electrical engineering, particularly as they relate to failure analysis of electrical systems, subsystems and components, including causes of electrical fires.

A forerunner in his field, Dr. Mulukutla S. Sarma has written not only this text, but also numerous technical articles for leading journals, including the first studies of methods for computer-aided analysis of three-dimensional nonlinear electromagnetic field problems as applied to the design of electrical machinery. Dr. Sarma is a life-fellow of IEEE (U.S.A), a fellow of IEEE (U.K.) and IEEE (India), a reviewer of several IEEE Transactions, a member of the IEEE Rotating Machinery Committee and a member of several other professional societies. He is also a professional engineer in the State of Massachusetts.