Research Interests: Solar Cell Efficiency, Laser Assisted Prototyping, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films, Data Acquisition System Design, Renewable Energy Power Systems, VLSI Design

Selected Honors and Awards:

• Senior Research Fellow, Naval Research Lab, Washington DC, 1998 until 2006
• Research Fellow, Air Force, Kirkland Air Force Base, Phillips Lab, Summer 1994
• Research Director, CNRS (French National Research center) France, May –August, 2000
• Principal Investigator, 93-96: NASA grant (NAG 52348, 333K); 95-97: NASA/HUM grant (NAG5-3141 210K); 97: NEOCERA grant (# 1002, 10K); and 06: DC Energy Office grant (# REDP02-0406-10, 60K), NSF SGER grant, 65K.

Career in Brief:

• BSEE (‘74), MSEE(’76), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, 1978
• RCA/GE, 1984-87, Member Engineering Staff, New Products Lab, Indianapolis, IN
• Adjunct Professor: Trappes College, France 1979
• Associate Professor, UDC 82-88
• Professor and Chairman UDC, 88
• Acting Assistant Dean, 09