BRANKO L. DOKIĆ, Foreign Member of AESS from 2004, was born on January 23, 1949 in Vrbnica, Bosnia and Hercegovina. He finished high school in Zenica in 1967 and graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Enginering (FEE) in Banja Luka. He was appointed an assistant at the Electronics Chair of the FEE on November 2, 1971, where he received his M.Sc. degree in 1978. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad. In the period 1982 to 1989 he was a science advisor in the professional electronics unit 'Rudi Čajavec'. For his work he was awarded a special plaque.Prof. Dokić peformed a number of significant roles at the FEE Banja Luka: he was the head of the Electronics Chair, chairman of the Board for Science and Education, chairman of the Faculty Council, and a vice-dean for research work. In the period 1991-2000 he was the dean of the FEE Banja Luka. This is the period when the Faculty experienced fastest development since its establishment. The department for power enginering was formed, a new building was built, and several laboratories were established: Electronic Circuits Design Lab, Micronetwork (a lab of that kind, unique in all the countries of the former Yugoslavia), Lab for Distance Learning, Multimedia Lab, Computer Engineering Lab, Power Electronics Lab. Prof. Dokić is the founder and the Chair of the science symposium INDEL (Industrial Electronics). He established the journal 'Electronics', published by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka and is currently its editor-in-chief. For his contributions to the development of the Faculty prof. Dokić received a number of plaques and special awards. Prof. Dokić supervised a number of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and participated in the boards for evaluation of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in Banja Luka, Zagreb and S. Sarajevo. Prof. Dokić has been involved in a number of social and political activites. He was one of the founders (in 1995) and the vicepresident of the Serbian Intelectual Forum of Republika Srpska. In the period 1996-2000 he was a representative of Republika Srpska in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Hercegovina (BH), a BH representative in Europian Council (1998-2001), member of the Science and Technology Committee in European Council. In the period 2001-2003 he was the minister for Transport and Communications in the Government of Republika Srpska, and since January 2003 the minister of Communications and Transport in Ministerial Council of BH. As a minister, he gave a significant contribution to the development of telecommunication and transport infrastructure in Republika Srpska and BH. He initiated the building of the highway Banja Luka - Gradiška and signing the contract for rendering the documentation for the highway at the Paneuropean Coridor V. He held a number of lectures on the most influential world forums, like the World Forum – Crans Montana, Economical Forum – Cavtat, the Development of Telecommunication Sector in South-East Europe – Bordeaux and Sarajevo, Information Society – Athens, World Conference on Information Society – Geneve, Liberalization of Telecom Market in South-East Europe – Budapest, Economical Forum – Sofia, etc.
Prof. Dokić is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Executive Board of ETRAN Society and the Board of the Power Electronics Society of Serbia and Montenegro. Prof. Dokić visited the following universities to promote his scientific and professional expertise:the National Technical University of Athens, Cramfild and Midlessex Universitiey in England and the Technical University of Graz (Austria).
Prof. Dokić authored or co-authored about 90 papers published in journals and conference proceedings. His papers were published in eminent world journals, like IEEE and IEE publications, Electronics Letters, Int. J. Electronics, etc. For some of his papers prof Dokić received special awards. For instance, his work "CMOS NI and NILI Schmidt's circuits" was awarded as the best paper in Electronics Board at the ETAN 1982 conference in Subotica. For his paper "CMOS Schmitt triggers", published in the IEE Proceedings Electronics Circuits and Systems No. 5, 1984. he received a diploma and an award from the Professor Branko Raković Fund. The research papers of prof. Dokić have been cited in the most prominent world science journals.
Prof. Dokić gave his most significant contributions in the fields of the analysis and synthesis of CMOS integrated circuits. He was the first in the world to give the complete analysis of complex integrated CMOS circuits and analytically showed the dependence of the static parameters on the number of inputs and the combination of active inputs. He gave several models of CMOS regenerative circuits used as special input cells in custom designed CMOS integrated circuits. In the period 1990-1992 prof. Dokić formed a special laboratory for the design using programmable logical elements. It is a unique lab of that kind not only in the countries of former Yugoslavia, but also in Middle and Eastern Europe. Prof. Dokić gave a significant contribution to the development of pulsed DC-DC convertors through a number of published papers, scientific research and development projects. The results of this work are two textbooks for university courses, Pulsed DC-DC convertors and Power Electronics – Converters and Regulators, used as the basic literature for undergraduate and graduate studies in Republika Srpska and Serbia. His book Power Electronics – Converters and Regulators is translated into English and is currently in the publishing procedure. Besides, he is the author of the book Integrated Circuits and of a book of excercises in power electronics.
Prof. Dokić has led a number of scientific, developmental and strategic projects funded by the Science Funds of BH. One of these projects, Novel Technologies in Electric Industry gathered all research institutions from the BH working in the field. Based on the project Development of Measurement Methods and Equipment for Air Purity Control the factory Čajavec began the production of several devices.
Prof. Dokić has been the author of more than 20 contracted developmental projects which resulted in novel products. Some of these products are currently in commercial production, and some are built into the existing systems as special devices. One of these devices is the microcomputer system for remote supervision, control and measurement МCSRSCU512/128. For the first time in the countries of former Yugoslavia, a system for remote supervision and control of radio relay stations was established using this device and built into the telecommunication networks of Maribor, Užice, Banja Luka and Bihać.