Huntsville

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Huntsville Electro-Optical Society
2005 Annual Meeting
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Meeting Goals

• Update of HEOS activities (Past, Current and
  Future)
• Provide an opportunity for a general discussion
  of the Huntsville Optics Community

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Agenda

• Officers and Duties
• Mission Statement, Goals, and Direction
• Membership Status
• Financial Status
• Past Year Activities/ Achievements
• Current K-12 Educational Outreach Programs
• Higher Education in Huntsville- including HEOS
  Scholarship Awards
• Event Calendar
• Huntsville Optics Community- General Discussion

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Officers and Duties

• Outgoing 2004 - 2005
• Stephen Granade (President), Advanced Optical
  Systems
• Ted Mooney (President-Elect), Center for Applied
  Optics, UAH
• Tommy Cantey (Secretary), Optical Sciences
  Corporation
• Bill Friday (Treasurer), U.S. Army AMRDEC Weapons
  Sciences (retired)
• Diana Chambers (Committee Chair), Dynetics
• Incoming 2005 2006
• Ted Mooney (President), Center for Applied
  Optics, UAH
• Don Gregory (President-Elect), UAH Physics Dept.
• Tommy Cantey (Secretary), Optical Sciences
  Corporation
• Kevin Spradley (Treasurer), Digital Fusion
• Pat Reardon (Committee Chair), Center for Applied
  Optics, UAH

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Officers and Duties

• President General health and viability of the
  society
• Marketing (including corporate member dues,
  regular membership dues)
• Employee marketplace
• Vice President (President-Elect) Proposals and
  Outreach
• Proposal Grants (OSA Activity grant, OSA K-12
  Outreach, SPIE Activity)
• Coordinator of Events (cookouts, annual dinner,
  Toys-for-Tots, other big events)
• Secretary General records and correspondence
• Membership records (regular and corporate)
• Calendar of events, Newsletter, National Society
  reports
• Executive minutes and tasks
• Treasurer Finance and accounting
• Financial accounting, bank account, member dues
• National Society financial reporting
• Program Chair Coordinator of HEOS Monthly
  Meetings
• Monthly speakers (including special arrangements)
• Annual dinner Speaker
• Speakers abstracts and Biographies
• Executive Council Chair Custodian of the
  Society
• Representative of the past presidents

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HEOS Mission Statement

• It is the aim of HEOS to stimulate interest in
  optics and the engineering of optical systems to
  promote the mutual needs of its members and to
  encourage free discussions of problems and
  discoveries among investigators of optical
  problems, designers, manufacturers, and users of
  optical apparatus.
• Membership in HEOS is open to all with
  appropriate training, experience, or interest in
  any branch of optics or electro-optics in
  research, in instruction, in optical or
  illumination engineering, in the manufacture and
  distribution of optical instruments, or
  physiological and medical optics.

Opportunities for our local optics community
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Goals and Direction

• Grow HEOS into a vital resource for the local
  optics professional
• Noncompetitive with parent national societies
• Create a common ground for industry, government
  and universities for networking, sharing of ideas
  and opportunities, social
• Outreach essential for a growing and thriving
  optics community
• K-12 Outreach
• Undergraduate and graduate education opportunities

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Past Year Achievements

• Newsletter

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Past Year Achievements

• Christmas party Toys for Tots

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Past Year Achievements

• Suds n Optics.
• The Social Meeting

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Past Year Achievements

• Monthly Guest Speaker Series
• at the Redstone Arsenal Officers club

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Past Year Achievements
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HEOS Website

• Membership Directory
• Corporate Directory
• Marketplace of Ideas
• Archives
• Outreach
• Calendar of Events

Cantey, Thomas Mikell Mr. Tommy
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1, 2009 Optical Sciences Corporation National
Memberships, OSA Yes, SPIE Yes 6767 Old Madison
Pike, Ste. 195 Shared Documents (PDF) Huntsville,
AL 35806-2187 vita.pdf resume.pdf Web
www.opticalsciences.com Laser Beam
Chacterization.pdf Edit Profile
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Membership Status
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Corporation Memberships
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Corporation Memberships
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Financial Status
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K-12 Outreach

• 2005 Winners of the North Alabama Regional
  Science Fair in Optics
• Senior Division Awards - Judged by Ted Mooney and
  Tommy Cantey
• First Prize (100, SPIE T-shirt, fleece vest)
  Joshua Kalin A non-intrusive investigation of a
  simulated ball lightning phenomena, 12th Grade
  Catholic High School, Sponsor Brian Finzel,
  Huntsville.
• Second Prize (75) - Maggie Meehan Faster than a
  speeding proton The enzyme, supercatalyst, 10th
  Grade Catholic High School, Sponsor Brian Finzel,
  Huntsville.
• Third Prize (50) Julia Kovalcik The effect of
  heat and light on luminescence, 10th Grade
  Catholic High School, Sponsor Brian Finzel,
  Huntsville.

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K-12 Outreach

• 2005 Winners of the North Alabama Regional
  Science Fair in Optics
• Junior Division Awards - Judged by Ted Mooney and
  Tommy Cantey
• First Prize (100, SPIE T-shirt, fleece vest)
  Nathan Tinker Burn Baby Burn Using Fresnel
  concentrators for space power and propulsion,
  8th Grade Covenant Christian Academy, Sponsor
  Rhonda Lisauckis, Huntsville.
• Second Prize (50) - Dave Praharaj Probing for
  the aging gene, 7th Grade Randolph School,
  Sponsor Jimmie Lou Martin, Huntsville.

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K-12 Outreach

• 2005 Winners of the North Alabama Regional
  Science Fair in Optics
• Middle Division Awards - Judged by Ted Mooney and
  Tommy Cantey
• First Prize (75, SPIE T-shirt, fleece vest)
  Joseph Newchurch The effects of tropospheric
  ozone pollution on agriculture, 6th Grade St.
  Johns Catholic School, SponsorDoreen Forsythe,
  Madison.
• Second Prize (50) Michael Hayes How color
  effects temperature, 6th Grade East Lawrence
  Middle School, Sponsor Patti Terry, Trinity.
• Elementary Division Awards
• First Prize (SPIE T-shirt and grab bag) Sarah
  Goad Does the color of light affect phototropism
  in plants?, 5th Grade Covenant Christian
  Academy, Sponsor Rhonda Lisauckis, Huntsville.
• Second Prize (SPIE T-shirt and grab bag) Jean
  Speer Plant growth in colored light, 5th Grade
  Weatherly Heights Elementary, Sponsor Rebecca
  McAlister, Huntsville.

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K-12 Outreach

• 2005 Winners of the Alabama State Science Fair in
  Optics
• HEOS Awards (Funded by OSA) - Judged by Ted
  Mooney and Tommy Cantey
• First Prize (150 and OSA goodie bag) Robert
  Campbell Refractometry, 11th Grade Murphy High
  School, Sponsor Wanda Griffis, Mobile.  
• Second Prize (100) - Mingwei Gu Silver
  nanoparticle coatings prepared bythermal
  decomposition of PVP/AG, 11th Grade Hoover High
  School, Hoover.  
• Third Prize (50) Courtney Weaver Sugar Twist
  A study of the optical activity of various
  sugars, 7th Grade Clark School of Mathematics,
  Sponsor Mary E. Smith, Satsuma. 

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K-12 Outreach

• 2005 Winners of the Alabama State Science Fair in
  Optics
• SPIE Awards - Judged by Don Gregory, Jessica
  Korman, Elizabeth Tanner and Dennis Morell
• First Prize- Mingwei Gu Silver nanoparticle
  coatings prepared by thermal decomposition of
  PVP/AG, 11th GradeHoover High School, Hoover.
• APS Awards - Judged by Don Gregory, Jessica
  Korman, Elizabeth Tanner and Dennis Morell
• First Prize Joshua Kalin A non-intrusive
  investigation of a simulated ball lightning
  phenomena, 12th Grade Catholic High School,
  Sponsor Brian Finzel, Huntsville.

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K-12 Outreach
Optics Education Ladder
Progressive Education Ladder
Local Workforce Opportunities
UAH/ AAM PhD
U.S. Army, NASA, Sparta, Northrop-Grumman,
Missile and Space Intelligence Center, SAIC,
Boeing, BAE, etc.
UAH/ AAM MS
Internship Opportunity
UAH/ AAM BS
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, NASA,
industry, etc
High School
Middle School
HOO
With help from HEOS and the Army, Huntsville City
Schools have received a grant of 20K from the
DEPS Society to begin to implement optics
education at ASFL and Lee High School!!
Elementary
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K-12 Outreach

• Hands-On-Optics
• NSF, SPIE, and OSA funded outreach program
• Locally implemented by HEOS, CAO, UAH Physics
  Dept., UAH College of Engineering
• Targeted to reach Middle School Students
• First training session included 10 teachers and 7
  volunteers
• NEED VOLUNTEERS

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K-12 Outreach

• Sci-Quest Spooktacular
• HEOS is sponsoring the weekend of Oct. 8-9 for
  optics related activities
• NEED VOLUNTEERS

• Activities
• Color Spinner station using your color spinners
  purchased by HEOS last year
• Station about how the eye works
• Optical Illusion stations using after images and
  the colored shadows demonstration.  The visitors
  will also make their own optical illusion to take
  home with them.
• Make a kaleidoscope station
• Optical equipment exploration area (mirrors,
  color filters, lens etc.)
• Laser demonstration tent
• Coloring pages for the little ones

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Education in Optics

• AAMU Physics and Optical Science

B.S. in Physics Optics Material Science
M.S. in Physics Optics Material Science
PhD. in Physics Optics Material Science
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Education in Optics

• UAH Physics, Electrical Engineering and Optical
  Science Engineering

Physics Dept.
Electrical Engineering Dept.
Interdisciplinary Degrees
B.S. - Physics Optics Concentration
B.S. - OPE Optical Engineering
PhD. Optical Science and Engineering
M.S. - Physics Optics Concentration
M.S. - EE Optics
PhD. - Physics Optics Concentration
PhD. - EE Optics
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Education in Optics
2005 HEOS Scholarship in Optical Science and
Engineering 500
Alabama AM
UAH
Absolute Interferometric Measurement of RoC and
Conic Constant for a Well Figured Surface with a
Spherical Reference Wave
Photoinduced Grating Formation in
Azo-Dye-Labeled Phospholipid Thin Films
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20052006 Calendar Events
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Huntsville Optics Community- General Discussion

• University of Alabama in Huntsville
• SPIE Student Chapter
• CAO Director
• Physics Chair
• NMDC Director
• Education in Optics
• K-12 Outreach
• College Level
• HEOS Goals/ Meeting Content
• Etc.