| Biography |
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Jim is a Fellow of SPIE and OSA, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Career Experience prior to UCF:
1999 – 2004: Executive Director, ISA – The Instrumentation, Systems, & Automation Society.
Responsible for all staff operations for 35,000 member international engineering society. 1993 – 1999: Executive Director, SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Responsible for all staff operations for 12,000 member international engineering society. 1991 – 1993: Chief Scientist, United Technologies Research Center 1976 – 1991: United Technologies. President & General Manager of United Technologies Optical Systems. Responsible for all operations of $60M business. Products included high power laser optics, optical systems, laser radar components & systems, custom optics. 1973 – 1976: Hughes Research Laboratories. R&D on adaptive optical systems for atmospheric compensation Personal:
Married – Nanci
Two children; one son, one daughter; both married.
Hobbies: photography, skiing, golf, gardening
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| Awards & Honors |
| 2001 |
President of CESSE
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| 1998 |
President's Award, CESSE
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| 1992 |
Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering, member
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| 1985 |
Life Member, NDIA
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| 1982 |
IEEE Senior Member
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| 1981 |
OSA Fellow
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| 1981 |
SPIE Fellow (1981) & Life Member (1999)
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| Key Publications and Presentations |
| Invited Papers | | 2000 |
James Pearson "The Future of Engineering Societies" CEO Winter meeting, February, 2000; Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives |
| 1999 |
James Pearson "Web-Based Collaboration" CEO Winter meeting, Council of Engineering & Scientific Society Executives, February |
| 1997 |
James Pearson "Optics and Optical Engineering – A Distinct Technical Discipline" Optics & Photonics News (OPN) |
| Refereed Papers | | 1982 |
J. E. Pearson & R.H. Freeman "Deformable Mirrors for All Seasons and Reasons
" Appl. Opt. vol. 21, 580 |
| 1978 |
James E. Pearson "Thermal Blooming Compensation with Adaptive Optics
" Optics Letters vol. 2, 7 |
| 1977 |
J.E. Pearson and S. Hansen "Experimental Studies of a Deformable Mirror Adaptive Optical System
" J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 325 |
| 1976 |
James E. Pearson "Atmospheric Turbulence Compensation Using Coherent Optical Adaptive Techniques
" Appl. Opt. 15, 622 |
| Proceedings Papers | | 2005 |
J.E. Pearson and P.J. Olson "Integrating statewide research & education resources for homeland security: the State University System of Florida Consortium on Homeland Security" Proc. SPIE, 5781, 32-38 |
| 1997 |
M.J. Soileau and J.E. Pearson "Is Optics a Separate Discipline?" Proc. SPIE, vol. 3190, 141 |
| 1996 |
J.E. Pearson "Concept For an International Optics and Photonics Industries Association" in "Global Networking of Regional Optics Clusters", R.P. Breault, Editor, Proc. SPIE, 1996, pp. 51-62 |
| 1988 |
James Pearson "Industry's Role in Optics Education" Proc. SPIE, 978, 101 |
| Books | | 1994 |
James E. Pearson, editor; "Adaptive Optics" SPIE Milestone Series, MS92 (SPIE Press) |
| 1993 |
James E. Pearson, editor; "Optical Technologies for Aerospace Sensing" SPIE Critical Reviews of Science and Technology Series, CR47 (SPIE Press) |
| 1979 |
J.E. Pearson, R.H. Freeman, and H.C. Reynolds "Adaptive Optical Techniques for Wavefront Correction
" Applied Optics and Optical Engineering, Vol. 8, Ed. by R.R. Shannon and J.C. Wyant (Academic Press, N.Y.) |
| 1969 |
J.E. Pearson and A.Yariv "Parametric Processes" in Progress in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 1, Edited by K.W. H. Stevens and J.H. Sanders (Pergamon Press, Oxford)
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