Biography of Melvin A. Lewis

My background as an electronics engineer includes 37 years full-time experience designing circuits and systems, including sophisticated instrumentation, in the defense industry (32 years at BAE Systems, formerly Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems, Yonkers, and before that - Loral Electronic Systems). I also worked at American Optical Company in their laser research lab. I have a BSEE degree from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. (1961), and an MS (in Electrical Engineering) from Columbia Univ. I currently teach full time (since the year 2000) at Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Teaneck, NJ, USA. My courses include Electromagnetic Fields and Waves (undergrad.) and Optics Engineering (graduate). I am an Assoc. Director of the School of Computer Sciences at FDU. I am a senior life member of the IEEE, a former chair of the North Jersey Section. I was a governor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and I am a member of the AOC (an electronic countermeasures engineering society), the AAAS and AIP/APS (where I am a charter member of the Topical Group on Gravitation). I have a patent in electro-optics, and I have written about ten technical articles, including five on the GW topic. One GW article was for IEEE Spectrum (May 95), one for IEEE Antennas and Propagation magazine (Jun 95), and the rest more recently. I have been doing non-experimental independent investigations in Gravitational Wave detection for 23 years.