Dr. Paul Mc Manamon named IEEE Fellow

On Nov 12, 2008 the IEEE board of directors voted to elevate Dr. Paul McManamon to the rank of Fellow of IEEE. The citation reads:  “for contributions in optical phased array and laser radar”.

Dr.McManamon was the Chief Scientist for the Sensors Directorate at AFRL and now is the Technology Director of the LADAR and Optical Communication Institute, LOCI, at the University of Dayton. Dr McManamon is also a Fellow of SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics, OSA, The Optical Society of America, MSS, the Military Sensing Society, and AFRL, The Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr McManamon was the 2006 President of SPIE. He has a M.S. and Ph. D. in Physics from the Ohio State University.