Elsa M. Garmire
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Who is Elsa M. Garmire?
Elsa M. Garmire is the Sydney E. Junkins Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. She was president of the Optical Society of America in 1993.
Professor Garmire received her BA at Harvard and her Ph.D. at M.I.T., both in physics. After postdoctoral work at Caltech, she spent 20 years at the University of Southern California, where she was eventually named William Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Laser Studies. She came to Dartmouth in 1995, where she served 2 years as dean of Thayer School of Engineering.
Author of over 250 journal papers and holder of nine patents, she has been on the editorial board of five technical journals. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America; she has served on the boards of three other professional societies. In 1994 she received the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award. She has been a Fulbright senior lecturer and a visiting faculty member in Japan, Australia, Germany, and China. She has been chair of the NSF Advisory Committee on Engineering Technology and served on the NSF Advisory Committee on Engineering and the Air Force Science Advisory Board.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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on July 23, 2013
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