Professor Marinčić’s Contributions to the Development of the Department for Communication and Signal Processing

It was in bygone year of 1977 when the cooperation with Professor Aleksandar Marinčić began, with the opening the post-graduate studies of telecommunication orientation at Faculty of Technical Sciences of University of Novi Sad. The first post-graduated students were the first assistants and future professors of Department of Communication: Prof. M. Temerinac and prof. V. Milošević. Continuing his regular course of Fundaments of Telecommunication at undergraduate level, Prof. Marinčić starts to teach Digital Telecommunications at post-graduate level (1978). By supervision of two master's thesis with Prof. Marinčić as a mentor the cooperation continues gaining new subject matters. Digital telecommunication become fundamental orientation of the Department A number of PhD. thesis supervisions and/or evaluations followed: M. Temerinac (ETF Belgrade 1982), V.Miloševića (ETF Belgrade 1984), Zdenka Živković-Džunja (ETF Novi Sad), Mirko Smiljanić (FTN Novi Sad 1992), Aleksandra Kozarov (FTN Novi Sad 1993), Željen Trpovski (FTN Novi Sad 1998). These PhD. theses extended the research interest of the Department: modulations, wireless systems, optical communications, digital image processing, digital signal processing, etc. Critical amount of teachers capable to perform and continue independent development of the Department exceeded the turning point. From a mere