He is President of Communications Consulting Corporation; Executive Vice President of Ansoft Corporation for Strategic Planning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after the company successfully merged with Compact Software, Inc.; he is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corp., Paterson, New Jersey; and a partner of Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany, a multinational company specializing in advanced test and radio communications systems. Previously, he was the President of Compact Software, Inc., Paterson, New Jersey; and Business Area Director for Radio Systems of RCA, Government Systems Division, Camden, New Jersey, responsible for implementing communications approaches for military secure and adaptive communications.

In November 2001, Dr. Rohde was appointed Visiting Professor of RF and Microwave Technologies at the University of Cottbus, Germany. On October 1, 1998 he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor of Electronic and Microwave Engineering by the University of Bradford, England. On October 1, 1997 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Grosswardein and on November 5, 1997 he was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University of Klausenburg. These degrees were awarded based on major achievements in the area of microwave CAD and development on synthesizer theory. In April 1999 he was awarded a German patent on Method to Measure the One and/or Multi-port Parameters of a Device Under Test (DUT) Using a Network Analyzer, Patent No. 196 06 986. In July 1997 he was awarded a U.S. patent on Phase-Locked Loop Circuits and Voltage Controlled Oscillator Circuits; Patent No. 5,650,754. In May 1997 he was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Microwave Technology at the University of Oradea, Romania. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Rohde was appointed Visiting Research Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Newark, NJ. Dr. Rohde is also a member of the staff at George Washington University (1982) and as an adjunct professor teaching in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences departments gave numerous lectures worldwide regarding communications theory and digital frequency synthesizers. In addition, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville (1977), he had been teaching radio communications course.

Dr. Rohde has published more than 60 scientific papers in professional journals, as well as six books: His latest book, Communications Receivers, Third Edition, by McGraw-Hill, with co-author Jerry Whitaker was published in December 2000; RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., with co-author David P. Newkirk, April 2000; Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design, John Wiley & Sons, August 1997; Communications Receivers, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, January 1997, with co-authors, Jerry Whitaker and T.T.N. Bucher; Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques, with co-authors George Vendelin and Anthony M. Pavio, by John Wiley & Sons, NY, January 1990; Communications Receivers: Principles and Design, McGraw- Hill, 1987; Digital PLL Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design, Prentice-Hall 1983; Transistoren bei hoechsten Frequenzen, in German, 1965, (on microwave transistors).

Dr. Rohde is a member of the following: ETA KAPPA NU Honor Society, Fellow member of the IEEE, Executive Association of the Graduate School of Business-Columbia University, New York, the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association, fellow of the Radio Club of America, and Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board at New Jersey Institute of Technology.