Ken Pohlmann  is the director of the Music Engineering Technology programs. He has been employed as a faculty member of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables since 1977. He was director of Recording Services, and occupied the positions of assistant and associate professor. Since 1983 he has served as the Director of the Music Engineering Technology program, and chaired the Music Media and Industry department from 1993 to 1998; he is also a tenured full professor. He has initiated new undergraduate and graduate courses in acoustics, digital audio, advanced digital audio, internet audio and studio production and in 1986 founded the first Masters degree in Music Engineering in the United States.

He is the author of Principles of Digital Audio (4 editions), The Compact Disc Handbook (2 editions), and co-author of two other books: Writing for New Media and Advanced Digital Audio. Since 1982 he has written over 1,200 articles for audio magazines including Audio Magazine, dB Magazine, Car Stereo Review, CD Review, Electronics Australia, Guitar Player Magazine, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Laserdisk Professional, Mix Magazine, Pro Audio Review, Sound and Vision, Scientific American, Stereo Review, and Video Magazine. He is contributing editor and columnist for Car Stereo Review, contributing editor and columnist for Stereo Review, and columnist for Video Magazine. Mr. Pohlmann has co-authored a number of web sites, including that of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.

Mr. Pohlmann co-founded Microcomputer Arts, Inc. (1980), International Business Information Systems Inc. (1982), and U.S. Digital Disc Corporation (1985). He chaired the Audio Engineering Society's International Conference on Digital Audio in Toronto in 1989, and co-chaired the Audio Engineering Society's International Conference on Internet Audio in Seattle in 1997. He was twice presented the AES Board of Governor's Award (1989 and 1998) and an AES Fellowship Award (1990) by the Audio Engineering Society for his work as an educator and author in the field of audio engineering. In 1991 he was elected to serve on the AES Board of Governors, and in 1993 to serve as the AES Vice President of the Eastern U.S. and Canada Region. In 1992 he was given the Philip Frost Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.

He also serves as a consultant in the field of digital audio technology including the development of optical disc and signal processing hardware, development of enabling technologies such as data compression algorithms, the authoring of compact disc multimedia titles, and the development of mobile audio systems for American, Japanese and European automobile manufacturers. He also serves as an expert witness in technology patent infringement and other engineering-related litigation. Some of his consulting clients include: Alpine Electronics, Arnold & Porter, Bertelsmann Music Group, Blockbuster Entertainment, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Christie, Parker & Hale, Cushman Darby & Cushman, Eclipse, Fish & Neave, Ford Motor Company, Firmstone & Feil, Fujitsu Ten, Harman International, Hogskolan I Lulea, Holland & Knight, Hughes Electronics, Hunton & Williams, IBM, Lexus, Microsoft, Motorola, Nippon Columbia, Onkyo America, Philips, Recording Industry Association of America, Sensormatic, Sonopress, Sony Corporation, TDK, Time Warner, Toyota, Times Mirror, Tweeter, United Technologies, U.S Justice Department Anti-Trust Division, and Young & Thompson. Mr. Pohlmann holds B.S. (1974) and M.S. (1976) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.